‘More than 1,000 killed in seven months in Karachi’

[EjazR]

DAWN.COM | Metropolitan | ?More than 1,000 killed in seven months in Karachi?

KARACHI: Capital City Police Officer (CCPO) Karachi Waseem Ahmed on Thursday revealed that more than 1,000 people were killed during the last seven months in the city, DawnNews reported.

Ahmed said that out of the 1,000 more than 200 were victims of target killings. Police had succeeded in arresting several culprits involved in the killings, he added.

The police chief said that over 300 localities of the city were declared sensitive.

We also have information on groups planning ethnic and sectarian unrest during the holy month of Ramazan, Ahmed cautioned.

Instructions have been issued for enhancing security measures during the month, he added. — DawnNews

 

[AgNoStiC MuSliM]

Pretty high murder rate.

New York City's murder rate averages about 500 a year.

Once you subtract the target killings from the overall murders, it is about 800 murders, still pretty high, though New York City's population of about 9 million is also about half of Karachi's estimated population of 19 million.

I am not sure which cities top the murder lists.

Brazil has the highest at 55,000 murders/year total. but I think Cape Town lead the list last year in terms of per-capita murders (large cities).

 

[KS]

Pretty high murder rate.

New York City's murder rate averages about 500 a year.

Once you subtract the target killings from the overall murders, it is about 800 murders, still pretty high, though New York City's population of about 9 million is also about half of Karachi's estimated population of 19 million.

I am not sure which cities top the murder lists.

Brazil has the highest at 55,000 murders/year total. but I think Cape Town lead the list last year in terms of per-capita murders (large cities).

Ur missing a very important point in trying to point put that there exists many cities with higher murder rate and that is - the killings in Karachi are due to ethinic tensions and which has a capability to explode into a full blown case of ethinic rife - which I presume is not the case in RdJ or Capetown or NYC.

But watever it is this need to stop.

 

[somebozo]

Most of the killing was due to tit-for-tat tactics played between political parties. Terrorist digging grave for each other. Eventually they wont have enough party workers to make a stand.

 

[foxbat]

Pretty high murder rate.

New York City's murder rate averages about 500 a year.

Once you subtract the target killings from the overall murders, it is about 800 murders, still pretty high, though New York City's population of about 9 million is also about half of Karachi's estimated population of 19 million.

I am not sure which cities top the murder lists.

Brazil has the highest at 55,000 murders/year total. but I think Cape Town lead the list last year in terms of per-capita murders (large cities).

Thread also is not on New York. Is it?

 

[Trisonics]

The correct numbers, of course is never released! its reasonable to conclude that these numbers are much higher!

 

[AgNoStiC MuSliM]

Ur missing a very important point in trying to point put that there exists many cities with higher murder rate and that is - the killings in Karachi are due to ethinic tensions and which has a capability to explode into a full blown case of ethinic rife - which I presume is not the case in RdJ or Capetown or NYC.

But watever it is this need to stop.

The article points out that 200 out of 1000 deaths were due to 'target killings'. That would imply that the majority of 800 deaths were homicides along the lines of other major cities.

In terms of ethnic tensions, I agree that the 200 target killings are a major issue that needs to be controlled, but at the same time it is important to point out that the majority of those 200 killings were committed by criminal groups and/or militant wings of ethnic parties, and not the result of ethnic tensions and communal violence between ordinary citizens - something that karachites of all ethnicities need to be commended for, that they have not let these groups drag them into a wider ethnic conflict and violence so far, along the lines of communal violence in India.

 

[AgNoStiC MuSliM]

Thread also is not on New York. Is it?

The thread is on homicides in Karachi, and therefore it bears comparison with homicides in other major cities. Your comment was to drag it into an irrelevant comparison with the separatist sentiment, protests and killings in Kashmir.

If you like you can compare the homicide rates in Delhi, Bombay or some other major Indian city with those of Karachi.

 

[karan.1970]

The thread is on homicides in Karachi, and therefore it bears comparison with homicides in other major cities. Your comment was to drag it into an irrelevant comparison with the separatist sentiment, protests and killings in Kashmir.

If you like you can compare the homicide rates in Delhi, Bombay or some other major Indian city with those of Karachi.

Agno.. These are really not homicides as in isolated cases of murder. Agreed that Foxbat's comparison with Kashmir is not accurate, but neither is yours with unrelated homicides in New york or Delhi.

These killings are representative of sectarian violence mixed with political agenda and have been going on unabated in last few months.

While they are different from Kashmir in the manner that one is Security forces trying to protect the civilians (who are not part of the protests) and govt/civilian property from rioters and the other is the spate of linked sectarian and politically motivated killings, both represent the govts failure to manage a prevailing socio-political situation.

And neither has anything to do with unrelated homicides in a metro..