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DATE=6/24/98
TYPE=CORRESPONDENT REPORT
NUMBER=2-234453
TITLE=PAK VIOLENCE (L)  CQ
BYLINE=SARAH HORNER
DATELINE=ISLAMABAD
CONTENT=
VOICED AT: 
INTRO:  TEN PEOPLE -- INCLUDING A SENIOR POLICEWOMAN -- HAVE BEEN
KILLED IN THE PAST 24-HOURS IN THE SOUTHERN PAKISTANI CITY OF 
KARACHI.  AS SARAH HORNER REPORTS, THE DEATHS ARE PART OF 
ON-GOING POLITICAL VIOLENCE IN THE CITY WHICH HAS RESULTED IN 
MORE THAN 100 MURDERS IN THE PAST MONTH.
TEXT:  POLICE SAY GUNMEN WITH AUTOMATIC RIFLES SHOT AND KILLED A 
SENIOR POLICEWOMAN AS SHE LEFT HER HOME EARLY WEDNESDAY IN 
KARACHI .
FARUKH SULTANA -- WHO WAS NOT IN UNIFORM WHEN SHE WAS KILLED -- 
WAS THE FORMER HEAD OF PAKISTAN'S FEMALE POLICE FORCE BEFORE 
BECOMING AN INSPECTOR IN THE TRAFFIC DEPARTMENT.
IT IS NOT CLEAR WHY SHE WAS MURDERED.  POLICE ARE LINKING MS 
SULTANA'S DEATH TO THE ON-GOING VIOLENCE WHICH IS PLAGUING THE 
COUNTRY'S FINANCIAL CAPITAL.  POLICE SAY SEVERAL POLITICAL 
ACTIVISTS HAVE BEEN KILLED DURING THE PAST 24 HOURS.
V-O-A KARACHI STRINGER, GHULAM HASNAIN, SAYS MOST OF THOSE KILLED
BELONGED TO THE M-Q-M POLITICAL MOVEMENT -- THE M-Q-M.  THE M-Q-M
IS SPLIT INTO FACTIONS, RESULTING SOMETIMES IN VIOLENT 
CONFRONTATIONS BETWEEN RIVAL MEMBERS.  THE MOVEMENT SPLIT INTO 
TWO GROUPS A FEW YEARS AGO AND IN RECENT WEEKS A THIRD FACTION 
HAS APPEARED. 
THE M-Q-M REPRESENTS INDIAN MUSLIMS WHO CAME TO PAKISTAN AFTER 
PARTITION IN 1947.  MOST OF THE MUSLIMS SETTLED IN THE SOUTH OF 
THE COUNTRY.  THE M-Q-M IS THE DOMINANT POLITICAL PARTY IN 
KARACHI. 
BUT, VIOLENCE IN KARACHI OFTEN AFFECTS THOSE NOT INVOLVED IN 
POLITICS.  GHULAM HASNAIN SAYS ONE COUPLE KILLED WEDNESDAY HAD NO
OBVIOUS POLITICAL AFFILIATION.  THE WIFE WAS A RETIRED 
SCHOOLTEACHER AND THE HUSBAND A GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEE, THE SOLE 
MOTIVE RELATIVES COULD OFFER FOR THE MURDER.
KARACHI IS TENSE WITH MANY SHOPS AND MARKETS REMAINING CLOSED.  
THERE IS LESS TRAFFIC THAN USUAL AND POLICE SAY M-Q-M WORKERS 
HAVE TOLD BUSINESSES TO  NOT OPEN.
DURING THE PAST MONTH THERE HAVE BEEN 130 MURDERS IN KARACHI, 
ALMOST ALL OF THOSE KILLED WERE POLITICAL ACTIVISTS.  ABOUT 100 
PEOPLE WERE ARRESTED TUESDAY FOLLOWING THE MURDERS OF THREE 
POLICEMAN.   (SIGNED) 
NEB/SLH/RAE
24-Jun-98 9:47 AM EDT (1347 UTC)
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Source: Voice of America
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