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Gunmen have killed at least 25 people in Karachi in the past 24 hours, raising tensions in Pakistan’s largest city as voters cast ballots to replace a provincial lawmaker murdered in August.
Police said they were still investigating the motives behind the shootings, but many so-called “target killings” in Karachi have been linked to gangs controlled by the city’s main political parties - the Muttahida Quami Movement and the Awami National Party - which have been feuding for much of the last 20 years.
The MQM claims to represent the Urdu-speaking descendants of those people who came to Karachi from India soon after the birth of Pakistan in 1947. It likes to speak out against the so-called Talibanisation of the city, a jab at the Awami National Party, which represents ethnic Pashtuns from the northwest.
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