Recent Reports on Karachi
May 4, 2010: Banned outfits eye new recruits through jihadi material -- in Karachi area
-- Pakistan Daily Times: "Sources revealed that Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan, Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, Harkatul Mujahideen, 313 Brigade, Jaish-e-Muhammad and various other banned outfits have been campaigning to recruit new militants."
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2010\05\04\story_4-5-2010_pg12_1
February 28, 2010: Taliban militants find breathing room in slums of Karachi, Pakistan
-- Insurgents use the city to regroup and raise funds
http://www.latimes.com/news/nation-and-world/la-fg-karachi-taliban28-2010feb28,0,430107.story
February 25, 2010: Taliban relocating to Karachi, US Senate told
http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/the-newspaper/front-page/06-taliban-relocating-to-karachi,-us-senate-told-420-rs-07
December 1, 2009: 'Karachi safest place to live for Taliban'
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2009\12\01\story_1-12-2009_pg7_14
February 9, 2010: Terrorists from Swat, FATA active in Karachi: Malik
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2010\02\10\story_10-2-2010_pg1_1
March 7, 2010: Dawn: Al-Qaeda commander Abu Yahya arrested in Karachi -- U.S. citizen born in Pennsylvania
http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/news/pakistan/22-intelligence-agencies-arrested-al-qaeda-commander-abu-yahya-in-karachi-03-aj
March 15, 2010: Phone calls made by Mumbai terror suspects traced to Karachi
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Phone-calls-made-by-Mumbai-terror-suspects-traced-to-Karachi/articleshow/5686253.cms
April 7, 2010: Pakistan: 2 fall prey to honour killing
-- The Nation reports: "A brother allegedly killed his ten-year-old sister and her alleged paramour in Nasirabad district of Balochistan in the name of honour on Sunday.
-- "According to reports reaching here, Jalaluddin, a resident of Chattar area of Nasirabad district, allegedly shot dead his sister, Amanat and her alleged lover Mir Dost. He fled the scene after killing them. Police handed over the bodies to heirs after completing legal formalities and have registered a case against accused persons and trying to arrest him.""
http://www.nation.com.pk/pakistan-news-newspaper-daily-english-online/Karachi/05-Apr-2010/2-fall-prey-to-honour-killing
February 24, 2010: Call for calm in wake of Karachi church attacks
http://www.realcourage.org/2010/02/pakistan-call-for-calm-in-wake-of-karachi-church-attacks/
February 16, 2010: Top Taleban commander Mullah Baradar captured in Pakistan
-- Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar described as "Afghan Taleban's top military commander"
-- London Times: "Mullah Baradar, who is deputy to Mullah Omar, the Afghan Taleban's supreme commander, had regularly visited Karachi, which Pakistani and Western intelligence agencies believe has become a major haven for the Afghan Taleban leadership"
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article7028598.ece
February 5, 2010: Shi'ites Targeted by Bombings in Karachi
http://www1.voanews.com/english/news/asia/Shiites-targetted-by-Bombings-in-Karachi-83628497.html
-- Pakistan: Sunni militants bomb Karachi bus, hospital
--- "Bombs target Shiites, killing 25 people in Pakistan's largest city"
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/sunni-militants-bomb-karachi-bus-hospital/article1457194/
http://geo.tv/2-5-2010/58595.htm
-- Suicide bombers strike bus then hospital
http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/suicide-bombers-strike-bus-then-hospital/story-e6frfku0-1225827302855
Pakistan: Karachi bombings a 'conspiracy' to paralyse financial hub
http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Security/?id=3.0.4279036434
January 11, 2010: Karachi couple kill 4-month-old daughter to exorcise demons
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2010\01\12\story_12-1-2010_pg7_4
January 26, 2010: Pakistan: Militants attack Nato trucks on the outskirts of Karachi
http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/news/pakistan/metropolitan/03-militants-attack-nato-trucks-on-the-outskirts-of-karachi-ss-01
November 15, 2009: Karachi: 'Terrorists using young minds'
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2009\11\15\story_15-11-2009_pg12_10
October 29, 2009: Karachi: Bid to carry out major terror attacks in city foiled
-- 5 Lashkar-e-Jhangvi men arrested
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2009\10\29\story_29-10-2009_pg12_1
Aafia Siddiqui from Karachi
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aafia_Siddiqui
March 29, 2007 - Pakistan: Karachi's Madrasas and Violent Extremism
http://www.crisisgroup.org/en/regions/asia/south-asia/pakistan/130-pakistan-karachis-madrasas-and-violent-extremism.aspx
-- report also published on United Nations web site
http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/country,,ICG,,PAK,,461cd8812,0.html
May 4, 2010: Pakistan Christian Post Reports Mob on Hundreds Attacking Christians -- in Karachi area
http://www.realcourage.org/2010/05/pakistan-mob-attacking-christians/
Violence against Christians in Karachi, working to return to calm
http://catinfor.com/en/2010/02/24/asiapakistan-violence-against-christians-in-karachi-working-to-return-to-calm/
Church remembers Karachi blast victims
http://www.cathnewsindia.com/2010/02/16/church-remembers-karachi-blast-victims/
Karachi Christians "locking themselves in homes"
http://www.cathnews.com/article.aspx?aeid=13445
Taliban attack Christians in Karachi
http://www.catholic.org/international/international_story.php?id=33331
Car bomb injures 13 at Karachi church
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/pakistan/1451862/Car-bomb-injures-13-at-Karachi-church.html
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