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| Deadly clashes rock Pakistan city | Deadly clashes rock Pakistan city |
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| At least 20 people have died in ethnic clashes in the southern Pakistani city of Karachi, officials say. | At least 20 people have died in ethnic clashes in the southern Pakistani city of Karachi, officials say. |
| Eyewitnesses said vehicles had been torched in different parts of the city, which is Pakistan's commercial capital and has a history of ethnic violence. | |
| Karachi is dominated by Urdu-speakers, but there is also a growing population of ethnic Pashtuns. | |
| The city's police chief told Reuters news agency that the fighting was between members of the two groups. | The city's police chief told Reuters news agency that the fighting was between members of the two groups. |
| It is not clear how the latest fighting began. Doctors in Karachi hospitals said they had received bodies riddled with gunshot wounds. | |
| Karachi, a city of over 15 million, is the capital of Sindh province. | |
| It contains many Urdu-speaking Muslims descended from people who migrated to Pakistan after the partition of India in 1947. | |
| The Pashtun population has been grown further since last year when tens of thousands were displaced by the military operation in the country's north-western tribal areas. | |
| Some polititians have voiced fears of Taleban infiltration of the Pashtun community. |