More violence flaring through out the world…
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Ethnic Violence Flares in Kosovo
MITROVICA, Kosovo—Assailants struck in the middle of the night, setting fire to a car belonging to one ethnic Serb politician who favors cooperation with Kosovo’s Albanian-dominated national government and tossing a grenade at the home of another.
The attack last month in the town of Zvecan was part of a recent series of arsons and bombings that have swept across the north of this fledgling Balkan state, which declared independence from Serbia in 2008 after years of ethnic strife.
Many local Serbs—who make up the majority of the population in Kosovo’s northernmost municipalities—don’t recognize the authority of Kosovo’s central government …
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Ethnic violence claims 24 lives in Pakistan
Islamabad, Oct 17 (DPA) At least 24 people were killed in overnight clashes between rival ethnic factions in Pakistan’s southern port city of Karachi, media reported Sunday.
The violence pitted the majority Urdu-speaking population, which migrated from India after creation of Pakistan in 1947, and Pashto-speaking people who have moved from northwestern Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa to work in Karachi.
Clashes began ahead of important by-elections Sunday for a provincial seat of southern province of Sindh, of which Karachi is the capital.
Local broadcaster Geo reported that 24 people had died in sectarian clashes that started Saturday evening. More than 50 people were injured, it said.
‘The city is tense, shooting is going on in various areas and police have so far failed to control the killings,’ Geo said.
The seat fell vacant after Raza Haider, a lawmaker representing Urdu-speaking Muttahida Qaumi Movement, was killed last month. The party blamed the Pashtun-based Awami National Party (ANP).
That killing led to widespread violence which claimed around 100 lives.
The latest clashes appeared to be triggered by ANP’s last-minute decision to pull out of the elections, to press for postponement of polls due to the poor security situation.
The government refused to delay Sunday’s elections, and deployed hundreds of police and paramilitary troopers at 84 polling stations to thwart violence.
Karachi is Pakistan’s financial hub, with a population of 18 million
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