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  • 13 years ago
ROUGH CUT (NO REPORTER NARRATION)

STORY: Hundreds of relatives, party officials and mourners on Saturday attended the funeral for a Pakistani lawmaker after after unidentified gunmen shot him and his son dead in a drive-by shooting in Karachi.

The port city of Karachi was shut on the demand of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) to observe a day of mourning on Saturday after party officials had appealed to traders, businessmen and transporters in Sindh to keep their businesses shut.

The leader of the MQM and a provincial lawmaker called the Friday's killings outside a mosque and "act of barbarism" and demanded "action" be taken against "these extremists."

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