Gunfire rattles Pakistan's Karachi as deaths mount in unrest - 93 killed

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KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) — 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 article says Karachi sometimes has unrest, but this time is the worst

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.

The article says Karachi usually has around 1,000 violent deaths a year, but it has already passed that.

According to the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, 1,138 people have been killed in Karachi in the first six months of this year, a figure that doesn't include the latest fighting. Of those, 490 were victims of so-called targeted killings, which are often linked to political, ethnic and sectarian groups.

Pakistan seems to be getting more unstable every day. How long will it be until Pakistan is in a full-blown civil war?