from aljazeera.........
"Police in Pakistan's largest city, Karachi, have ordered shoot on sight after more than 60 people were killed in street violence in the last three days.
"We have issued orders to the security forces to shoot anyone involved in violence on the spot," Sharjeel Memon, the provincial information minister, told the Reuters news agency on Friday.
"In addition to the police and Rangers, another 1,000 personnel of the Frontier Constabulary will be deployed in the city to control the violence," he said.
Saud Mirza, the Karachi police chief, said 63 people have died in the violence so far, with around 150 injured.
Yusuf Raza Gilani, the Pakistan prime minister, appealed for peace on Friday, calling for the country to unite against the city's violence.
Shops and fuel stations were shut and public transport idled after Karachi's main political party Muttahida Qaumi Movement, which resigned from the federal government last week, called for a day of mourning.
The violence, which broke out in Orangi Town, later spread to Lyari, Baldia Town, Site and Gulshan-i-Iqbal areas"................READ MORE
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