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Karachi violence toll rises to 52

Govt to show MPs ’evidence’ of MQM’s anti-state acts
ISLAMABAD, June 25: Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto has claimed that the violence in Karachi was caused by a foreign-sponsored insurgency aimed at destabilising Pakistan, reports AFP.
Her comments came late Saturday as clashes which were believed to have involved the Mohajir Quami Movement (MQM) claimed five more lives in the violence-wracked port city of Karachi.
"The Altaf Group is foreign-funded, foreign-trained, foreign motivated and involved in an insurgency against the state," Benazir said, referring to MQM chief Altaf Idussain who is living in selfexile in London.
The government said it would soon hold a closed-
door session of parliament to present MPs with "concrete evidence" on the alleged antistate activities of the MQM. No date has been set for the session.
The MQM, which represents the several milljon-strong Urdu-speaking settler community made up of migrants who came to Pakistan after the subcontinent's 1947 partition, is blamed by Islamabad for the ongoing unrest.
More than 200 people have been killed in Karachi this month, with the toll for the past six months exceeding 750.
“This an hour of trial for the entire nation and ^e all have to stand united to fight terrorism," said Benazir, whose statement was also carried by state-run television. , ,
Benazir did not identify the outside forces that she said were backing the MQM, but neighbouring India has been frequently blamed by Pakistani authorities for interfering in Sindh.
President Farooq Ahmed Leghari last week accused India of fomenting the trouble in Karachi in revenge for Pakistan’s support for a Muslim uprising in the Indian-controlled Kashmir.
The prime niinister has re-peatedly said the government wants a political solution to the crisis but has ruled out talks with the MQM until if "lays down arms, surrenders criminals and condemns terrorism."
The Pakistani opposition, led by former Premier Nawaz Sharif, plans tp convene a
broad-based conference of political parties in Karachi to evolve a consensus on how to put an end to the violence.
Sharif has said the government should give up its preconditions and talk to the
AP adds, militants waging a terror campaign against rival Muslims and the government killed 13 people and burned several buildings in the country's financial centre Sunday.
Police said several of the killed had been brutally tortured. their throats slit and their legs and hands tied.
The killings are part of a rampage by members of the Mohajir Quami Movement (MQM) that" began Thursday night and has left at least 52 - people dead.