Karachi, Dec. 2 : An editorial in the Daily Times has said that the ethnic trouble in Karachi and the recent terror strikes in Mumbai are as different as chalk and cheese, and therefore making comparisons would be an exercise in futility.

It further says that ethnic rioting in Karachi has been on for long, and has surfaced well before what happened in Mumbai last week.

It, therefore, cautions against whipping up hatred against India, saying that it is not as important as suppressing the ethnic rage in Karachi.

Ethnic rioting in Karachi has so far resulted in the death of 29 people and injuries to 200, prompting Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani to call for a report on what is happening.

Karachi, Dec. 1 : At least 38 people were killed and over 100 have been injured in three days’ of violence that erupted on Saturday here.

Dozens of vehicles were torched in different areas, while unknown miscreants continued to damage public and private properties in the city.

The situation is still not under control. Law enforcement agencies have been put on high alert, Geo TV reported.

KARACHI, Pakistan, Dec. 1 -- Clashes between two ethnic groups in Pakistan's port city of Karachi during the weekend killed at least 28 people, police said Monday.

The groups, which were not identified, rioted, attacked each other and indulged in arson in several sections of the city, the English-language newspaper Dawn reported, adding more than 50 shops and at least 60 vehicles were set on fire.

Authorities in Sindh province, of which Karachi is the capital, banned riding on two-wheeled vehicles for three days to curb sniping, Dawn said.

Karachi, Nov 26 : Departing from its earlier practice of buying submarines from France, Pakistan has reportedly decided to acquire three German submarines of “Type 214”.

Walter Freitag, the chief executive officer of the HDW, the largest conventional submarine maker in the world, said that his company had finalised technical specifications with the navy to build three “Type 214” submarines in Pakistan.

“The commercial contract has been finalised up to 95 per cent,” The News quoted him as saying.

He hoped the final contract in this regard will be signed soon.

Karachi, Nov 25: Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has said that his government had found that no evidence that former president Pervez Musharraf had permitted the US to launch strikes inside Pakistan.

The prime minister said that according to the record of the General Headquarters and the Foreign Office, the former president had not allowed the US to conduct strikes inside the country.

Karachi, Nov 25 : Pakistan intelligence agencies have reportedly come across warnings of a suicide attack by Pakistan Taliban (TTP) at the Karachi airport and several key federal ministries in Islamabad during the last week of November.

After receiving information from intelligence agencies, the country’s Interior Ministry has informed law enforcement agencies that the month of November would be crucial and terrorists had planned to carry out suicide attacks at the Jinnah International Airport Karachi, and also at the offices of various ministries in Islamabad, reported the Daily Times.

However, the modus operandi of the terrorists’ designs was not disclosed in the intelligence inputs conveyed to the Interior Ministry.