The World : 26 Die in Karachi Violence

At least 26 people were killed, including four policemen, and more than 100 were injured in renewed ethnic violence in Karachi, Pakistan’s biggest city, doctors and witnesses said. Hospitals said most of the casualties came from a northern Karachi district, where authorities ordered an army-supervised curfew at noon after early morning gun battles between rival Pushtun and Mohajir ethnic groups. More than 400 people have died in Karachi, capital of the southern province of Sind, in clashes since October, 1986, between Pushtuns from northwestern Pakistan and Mohajir immigrants from India.