Police: Gunshots rattle Pakistan?s Karachi as death toll climbs to 93 in five days of violence

KARACHI, Pakistan ? Gunshots rattled Pakistan?s largest city Saturday as authorities scrambled to bring an end to political and ethnic violence that has claimed at least 93 lives in five days.

The fighting in Karachi, a southern port city of 18 million people, has added to the instability in this nuclear-armed nation and U.S. ally already bedeviled by Islamist militancy.

Karachi occasionally erupts in violence, often due to various ethnic, political and sectarian tensions ? which often overlap because some political parties have been formed along ethnic and religious lines. But the latest spell is extraordinary even by Karachi standards.

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