Pakistani troops deployed in Karachi as violence continues
Pakistani troops were deployed on the streets of Karachi today to curb rioting and vandalism that flared in the southern city for a third day following a suicide bombing that killed 57 people at a Sunni Muslim prayer service.
The deployments, the first there since Shiite-Sunni unrest in the early 1990s, took place hours before mass funerals were expected for three leaders of the moderate Sunni Tehrik group who were among those killed in Tuesday’s attack, one of Pakistan’s deadliest ever.
