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Pakistan:Documentation on the following events: 1) August 1986: MQM rally at Ishtar Park, Karachi 2) October 1986: MQM rally in Hyderabad 3) July 1988: MQM rally at Hyderabad Municipal House 4) Attack on Mohajirs in the town of Orangi. Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada Pakistan 1 January 1991 PAK7339 Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada, Pakistan:Documentation on the following events: 1) August 1986: MQM rally at Ishtar Park, Karachi 2) October 1986: MQM rally in Hyderabad 3) July 1988: MQM rally at Hyderabad Municipal House 4) Attack on Mohajirs in the town of Orangi., 1 January 1991, PAK7339, available at: http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/docid/3ae6aace78.html [accessed 12 November 2011] This is not a UNHCR publication. UNHCR is not responsible for, nor does it endorse, its content. Any views expressed are solely those of the author or publisher.

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Pakistan:Documentation on the following events: 1) August 1986: MQM rally at Ishtar Park, Karachi 2) October 1986: MQM rally in Hyderabad 3) July 1988: MQM rally at Hyderabad Municipal House 4) Attack on Mohajirs in the town of Orangi.

1) According to an article published by the Financial Times in October 1989, the Mohajir Quami Movement (MQM) not only participated in but also arose from a mass rally in Karachi in August 1986 (Lamb, 1989). The Far Eastern Economic Review reported the arrest of the then opposition leader Benazir Bhutto, the death of three of her supporters and the wounding of many others during the crackdown on the rally by the police (1986). The information currently available to the IRBDC does not specifically mention where the rally took place in Karachi. 2) In October 1986, a Mohajir procession, on its way to a rally in Hyderabad, passed through a predominantly Pathan area of Sohrab on the outskirts of Karachi and a gunfight broke out. According to the police, six people were shot dead and at least 13 were injured in the clashes (Reuters, 31 October 1986; 1, 5 November 1986). 3) According to an article published by The Ottawa Citizen in July 1988, clashes erupted between Sindhis and Mohajirs in Hyderabad on 17 July 1988. Although the article does not mention where in Hyderabad the fighting took place, it indicates that the town's mayor was wounded and a municipal councillor was killed in the clashes (1988). 4) Clashes erupted in Karachi's Orangi suburb in November and December of 1986. In all the cases reported in the articles available to the IRBDC, Mohajirs have been attacked by Pashtuns (Reuters, 12 November 1986; The Globe and Mail, 1986; Tempest, 1986). The four-day rioting of December 14 was described as the worst in decades, claiming at least 600 persons killed or wounded (Tempest, 1986). These reports cannot be corroborated with further sources at this time by the IRBDC. ATTACHED DOCUMENTS : Christina Lamb, " Kalashnikov Rule Maintains the Ethnic Divide in Southern Pakistan ", Financial Times, 10 octobre 1989. " Pakistan ", Fra Eastern Economic Review, 28 August 1986.

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" Curfew Ordered in Karachi and Hyderabad After Ethnic Clashes ", Reuters, 31 October 1986. Icrahim Khan, " Riot Death Toll Hits 15, Troops Enforce Curfew ", Reuters, 1 November 1986. " Pakistani Soldiers Kill Six as Karachi Riots Continue ", The Ottawa Citizen, 5 November 1986. " Ethnic Violence Flares up in Pakistan ", The Ottawa Citizen, 18 July 1988. " Fresh Communal Riots Flare in Karachi, Five Injured ", Reuters, 12 November 1986. " 54 Killed, 310 injured in Pakistani Ethnic Riot ", The Globe and Mail, 15 December 1986. Rone Tempest, " Afghan War Finds Victims in Karachi ", The Ottawa Citizen, 18 December 1986.
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