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Karachi A Virtual War Zone, Islam and Sectarianism, NewAgeIslam.com


Islam and Sectarianism
19 Aug 2011, NewAgeIslam.Com

Karachi A Virtual War Zone


By ANITA JOSHUA
19 Aug. 2011
The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan says Karachi is in the grip of a multisided wave of insecurity driven political, ethnic and sectarian polarisation.
Even by Karachi's own standards, the recent spate of ethnopolitical violence has been brutal and prolonged. For well over a month now, Pakistan's largest city and commercial capital has been on the boil, with 318 people killed in July alone. And, according to a body count done by the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP), 1,138 people were killed in the first six months of this year.

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