(9 Jul 2011)
1. Various of Pakistani soldier standing guard close to place where gun battle took place
2. Various of street where gun battle took place
3. Man and son looking out onto street
4. Police vehicles patrolling
5. SOUNDBITE (Urdu) Mohammad Kashif, Local resident who was trapped in his house:
"For the past three or four days in Qasba colony there has been intense firing and people are being killed ruthlessly. They are hungry as well. I myself was stranded without food for several days. The situation is that the food supply has run out and dozens of homes have been set on fire. Four or five homes were burnt in our own street and no one could put them out. Anyone who tried would end up getting shot at."
6. Wide of street with shutters down
7. Close of locked shop
8. Various of military stopping and searching milkman
9. Solider with machine gun
10. Various of military climbing hill
11. People being evacuated from homes in van
12. Various of evacuee family
13. Tracking shot of military heading towards trouble spots
14. People chanting (Urdu) "Long live Pakistan!"
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Rehman Malik, Interior Minister:
"There is some group, there is some force which is working against (the) war on terror in Karachi. Because creating a war-like situation, creating a law-and-order situation in the given situation, whoever is helping this kind of law and order is actually helping Taliban. Because what (do the) Taliban want? Destabilisation. What (do the) Taliban want? Mass killing and anybody contributing to this factor, I am sure he is not a friend of Pakistan, he is not friend of Islam, they are friends of terrorists."
16. Malik leaving
STORYLINE:
Gunshots rattled Pakistan's largest city on 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 (m) million people, has added to the instability in this nuclear-armed nation and US ally already bedevilled 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.
It follows the decision by the city's most powerful political party, the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM), to leave the federal ruling coalition and join the opposition.
Such moves by the MQM have traditionally been accompanied by outbursts of fighting.
A senior police official said on Saturday that more than 150 people were detained on suspicion of a role in the battles that have gripped several neighbourhoods.
Some shops were reopening as security forces took position in trouble spots, but in many areas businesses remained shuttered and people were still too scared to leave home.
Others chose simply to pack up and leave town.
"For the past three or four days in Qasba colony there has been intense firing and people are being killed ruthlessly," said Mohammad Kashif, a resident of Qasba colony.
He said the food supply had run out and that dozens of homes had been set on fire.
"Four or five homes were burnt in our own street and no one could put them out. Anyone who tried would end up getting shot at," Kashif said.
Soldiers continued to monitor the streets on Saturday, a day after the violence in parts of the sprawling metropolis got so bad that security forces were ordered to shoot gunmen on sight.
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