Police say gunshots are still rattling Pakistan’s largest city, where the death toll in five days of political and ethnic violence has reached 93.
The government has ordered security forces to shoot gunmen on sight in Karachi. Authorities also are sending hundreds more troops to restore the peace.
Senior police official Saood Mirza said on Saturday that more than 150 people have been detained on suspicion of having had a role in the attacks across several of Karachi neighborhoods.
Karachi is a hotbed of political, ethnic and sectarian tension, and it occasionally erupts in violence.
The latest spell follows the decision by the city’s most powerful political party to leave the federal ruling coalition and join the opposition.
