SCORES DIE AFTER KARACHI MP RAZA HAIDER SHOT
Baku, August 3 (AZERTAC). At least 35 people have been killed in the southern Pakistani city of Karachi in violence which erupted after an MP was shot dead at a funeral in a mosque, BBC reports.
More than 100 people were also wounded in the rioting that followed the death of Raza Haider, of the MQM party.
More than 300 people have been killed in political killings in Karachi this year, say human rights organisations.
Pakistan`s Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has appealed for calm and ordered an investigation into the assassination.
Haider, a Sindh provincial assembly member, was performing ablutions in a mosque near the city centre when he was shot to death by four gunmen, according to witnesses. His guard was also killed.
Police in Karachi say they have arrested about a dozen suspects in connection with the murders.
Karachi is tense ahead of Haider`s funeral on Tuesday, with all schools shut in the city and in Hyderabad and Mirpurkhas, Lower Sindh province.
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