KARACHI, June 14, Reuter: Six people were treated for bullet, knife and stone injuries in an outbreak of rioting in Karachi, Pakistan’s largest city, hospital doctors said today.
Police said they arrested at least 44 people in the suburb of New Karachi last night before restoring order with the help of teargas.
The rioters, mostly Mohajir immigrants, set fire to a taxi owned by a member of the rival Pashtun community, who come from northwest Pakistan, eyewitnesses said.
At least 250 people have been killed since last November in clashes between Pashtuns and’ Mohajirs, Moslems who migrated from other parts of the subcontinent at partition in 1947.
Violence was sparked off last week when the mainly Pashtun taxi and rickshaw drivers raised their prices in response to new taxes in the June 4 federal budget.
Mohajir youths reacted by setting vehicles on fire and at least two people were killed in the ensuing fighting.
Article extracted from this publication >> June 19, 1987
