11.   Police and paramilitary rangers surrounded the area.

12.   Police and Paramilitary rangers in bullet proof vehicles and in jeeps with mounted machine guns stepped up their patrols in Karachi following the two incidents.

13.   A local journalist, Liquat Brohi, said Pakistani soldiers and paramilitary rangers have been sent to the city and soldiers are patrolling the streets.

14.   At least two other men were injured in the chaos, including a paramilitary ranger.

15.   For at least two months the police and paramilitary rangers have been conducting sweeps through the hardest hit areas confiscating weapons and arresting hundreds of people.

16.   Hundreds of paramilitary rangers and policemen lined the streets, watching the procession a discreet distance away.

17.   No incidents were reported while hundreds of police stood guard in buses and armored personnel carriers and paramilitary rangers took up positions on the rooftops of nearby office buildings.

18.   On Wednesday, hundreds of paramilitary rangers and police were patrolling the area.

19.   Police and paramilitary rangers have beefed up security in the restive port city of Karachi, where traffic was sparse in many places.

20.   Police and paramilitary rangers patrol in armored trucks, their automatic rifles ready to fire.