Outbreaks of violence in Pakistan's largest city of Karachi killed at least 31 people overnight, following the killing of a Pakistani legislator in a drive-by shooting, a senior police official said.
Lawmaker Raza Haider from the Muttahida Qaumi Movement, a partner in the Sindh provincial ruling coalition led by the Pakistan Peoples Party, was shot dead by gunmen on motorcycles on Monday.
His assassination sparked panic in the teeming city of 16 million where markets closed and streets emptied as bursts of gunfire were reported in various parts of the financial capital.
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"The city's hospitals received the bodies of at least 31 people who were victims of gunshots," said Hamid Parhiar, police surgeon of Sindh province.
"The bodies have been received from different parts of the city. All those were shot dead," Parhiar told AFP.
