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Haunted by gang violence and poverty for decades, Lyari was once considered one of Pakistan's most dangerous areas, but those grim realities also inspired a generation of artists and spawned a burgeoning hip hop scene.
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At least 12 people were killed as monsoon rains lashed Pakistan's port city of Karachi, officials and charity groups confirmed Wednesday, while flooding also triggered power outages and overwhelmed the metropolis's fragile infrastructure.
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Thousands of Pakistanis on Thursday thronged the streets of Karachi to attend the funeral of one of the country's best known Sufi musicians, who was gunned down a day earlier in what police called an "act of terror".
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One of Pakistan's best-known Sufi musicians, Amjad Sabri, was shot dead by unknown assailants riding a motorcycle in Karachi on Wednesday, triggering an outpouring of grief over what police described as an "act of terror".
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Pakistan's biggest city of Karachi was brought to a standstill Thursday following the massacre of 44 minority Shiite Ismaili Muslims in the first attack officially claimed by the Islamic State group in the country.
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Pistol-wielding gunmen in Pakistan's biggest city Karachi stormed a bus carrying members of the Shiite Ismaili minority Wednesday, killing at least 43 in the first attack in the country officially claimed by the Islamic State group.
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Pistol-wielding gunmen in Pakistan's biggest city Karachi on Wednesday stormed a bus carrying members of the Shiite Ismaili minority, killing at least 43 in the second deadliest militant attack in the country this year.
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A woman identified by police as a U.S. national was shot and wounded in Karachi Thursday, officials said, with leaflets found at the scene claiming the attack on behalf of the Islamic State group.
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At least 21 bathers have drowned in rough seas off Pakistan's biggest city Karachi, officials said Thursday, after defying a ban on swimming during the monsoon season.
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Service resumed at Pakistan's busiest airport on Monday, less than 24 hours after a group of Taliban militants launched an all-night attack on the Karachi facility.
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Twenty-eight people were killed as Pakistan's military fought an all-night battle Monday with Taliban gunmen who besieged Karachi airport armed with rocket launchers and suicide vests, leaving a nascent peace process in tatters.
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Heavily armed militants launched an assault on Pakistan's busiest airport in the southern city of Karachi, leaving at least 24 dead including 10 militants in a six-hour siege that the army quelled at dawn on Monday.
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Heavily armed militants attacked Pakistan's busiest airport in the southern city of Karachi Sunday night, killing at least six people as flights were suspended and the army was called in, officials said.
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Heavily armed militants attacked Pakistan's busiest airport in the southern city of Karachi Sunday night, killing at least six people as flights were suspended and the army was called in, officials said.
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Heavily armed militants attacked Pakistan's busiest airport in the southern city of Karachi Sunday night, killing at least five people as flights were suspended and the army was called in, officials said.
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Heavily armed militants attacked Pakistan's busiest airport in the southern city of Karachi Sunday night, forcing the suspension of all flights as the army was called in to repel the gunmen, officials said.
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A strong earthquake measuring 7.7 in the Richter scale struck Pakistan, reports the United States Geological Survey. At least 328 people have died and hundreds more were wounded are trapped under rubble.
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A renowned Pakistani social activist is being called a martyr by many after she was gunned down Wednesday while driving through Orangi Town, a suburb in the northwestern part of Karachi.
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Another day brings news of a yet a new massacre on the Shia community in Pakistan. By last count, scores are injured, and at least 47 people have been killed in a bomb attack in the Shia enclave in Karachi Pakistan by the name of Abbas Town.
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Two factories in Pakistan were gutted by fire on Tuesday, killing up to 261 people. Rescue work in Karachi and Lahore continues today.
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Former soap star tough man turned reporter, Ross Kemp has made a new second series of his intrepid television documentary, Extreme World. The first episode aired last night on Sky One and saw the audacious reporter being shot at in Karachi.
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A group of fishermen caught a monstrous whale shark in the Arabian Sea. A video clip was posted on YouTube showing the fish, about 40 feet long and six feet wide, being hauled in at the port using cranes in the Pakistani city of Karachi.
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Police in Pakistan are investigating links between Islamic militants and a seminary that was allegedly used as a drug detoxification center. A police raid uncovered 50 students chained together in the seminary.
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As many as 20 Jihadists have been arrested in connection to the assassination of Raza Haider, a Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) leader. Sixty-three have been killed in riots on the streets of Karachi.
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It's been six weeks since Cyclone Phet hit the city of Karachi in Pakistan. Since the storm ended many thousands of mollusks per day have washed ashore onto the popular tourist beach of Karachi and the smell is keeping everyone inside, away from the sea.
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A stampede amongst a crowd waiting to receive free flour in Pakistan's financial capital Karachi has killed at least 18 women and children.
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Pakistan's largest city is facing one of the worst power breakdowns in history. Most parts of the city are without power for almost 24 hours.
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At least 27 people have been killed and more than 40 other wounded in a fresh incident of violence between two ethnic groups in Pakistan’s largest city, Karachi. Enraged people torched about 20 vehicles in different parts of the city.
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In Karachi, three women have allegedly abducted a man and raped him for four consecutive days and left him unconscious with bleeding genitals.
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In what can be deemed as a sense of barbaric vigilantism, two robbers were beaten up by angry citizens. However, the beating by the many citizens was not the worst of the ordeal.
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U.S. President Barack Obama, First Lady Michelle Obama and their daughter Malia Obama meet Malala Yousafzai, a young Pakistani schoolgirl shot by the Taliban in 2012, in the White House last year. Pete Souza-White House/Wikimedia Commons
SAFER TIMES: A Pakistan International Airlines-leased jetliner arrives at Jinnah International Airport in Karachi in 2005.
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A Pakistan Navy Sea King helicopter arrives for a search and recovery mission over Clifton beach in Karachi on July 31, 2014 Rizwan Tabassum, AFP
2 factory fires in Pakistan caused at least 261 deaths. Video screen capture
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