Ethnic violence creates panic among citizens

KARACHI - Growing ethnic violence is gripping the City which is creating panic among the citizens.
Rumours and warning threats to people to leave their houses, teashops, incidents of torture and blazing of pushcarts/shops have been created panic among the Karachiites.
Gossips spread across the City that Pushtoon have planned to blow up the water supply line and will also devise a strategy to halt the supply line of basic commodities from rest of the country.
Residents of various areas where ethnic rivalry is strengthening include North Nazimabad, North Karachi, Orangi Town, Baldia Town, Quaidabad, Liaquatabad and number of other areas.
Residents of the Chappell Apartment, Gulshan View, A-One Apartment, Phase 1, 2 and Iqra City situated at Abul Hassan Isphahani Road, Sohrab Goth have been suffering due to rising political tension.
It has been leant that some armed miscreants have visited various apartments where multi-ethnic population is residing and announced on megaphone that a particular language-speaking people leave the houses as early as possible while area police have declined to know about the incident when contacted.
Bhakhar Goth located here in the Sachal police precincts where a specific group of militants have forcibly vacated number of residential and commercial lands. A printing factory owner seeking anonymity told TheNation that miscreants have occupied the whole Goth including my factory and also locked the doors of the houses.
North Nazimabad, Hassan Disolva Town, comprising of ethnic population, residents complained that some miscreants had dispatched written warnings and asked people of a particular sect to leave the houses.
Naseem, a mobile shop owner at Gulshan View said, “I have closed my shop permanently because of frequent threats.” Activists of a political party have warned the residents of a particular language to leave the apartments otherwise be prepared for the consequences. It has also been reported that some miscreants have warned tea stalls owners throughout the City to leave their business.