MQM MPA Raza Haider assassinated

Published January 1, 1970
Provincial lawmaker Raza Haider, 35, from the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) was assassinated in Karachi on August 2, 2010. Haider was killed in a drive-by shooting in downtown Karachi, where political and ethnic assassinations have fanned increasing tensions. The city of 18 million, that has been largely spared the Taliban and Al-Qaeda-linked bomb attacks that have dogged northwest Pakistan, is plagued by ethnic and sectarian killings, crime and kidnappings.[imagebrowser id=9383]

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