Bloodbath in metropolis city of Pakistan, once again

More than 20 people have been killed so far in the violence that struck the metropolitan city of Pakistan, Karachi, report police and hospital officials.

According to the police, most violence was reported from the eastern and central parts of the city.

It’s as if July has been cursed just for Karachi and its people who have been bearing traumas after traumas – ever since the month began.

At least a hundred people have been shot dead in ethnic violence during the recent months.

Much of it has involved activists of the city’s dominant parties such as the MQM, the ANP and PPP.

The latest round of violence began when members of the Muttahida Quami Movement (MQM) resisted attempts by a breakaway faction to come out of hiding – after a decade under cover – and enter areas of the city, says BBC reporter M. Ilyas Khan.

The MQM is mainly a political group of Muslim Urdu-speaking people whose families migrated to the Sindh province at the time of the partition of the sub-continent in 1947.

The MQM was first known as Muhajir Qaumi Movement back in 1991, which was divided later, forming a new faction now known as Muttahida Qaumi Movement.  Ever since then the two have had a history of mutual violence and armed hostilities.

Read it at BBC.