31.   Clashes have also been reported between paramilitary rangers and armed groups.

32.   Clashes erupted between masked men and paramilitary rangers in the central and western parts of Karachi overnight, and passers-by were also targeted by snipers, officials said.

33.   Clashes have been reported between paramilitary rangers and armed groups.

34.   Despite the heavy deployement of paramilitary rangers and police in armoured vehicles, there was heavy firing in many parts of the city, witnesses said.

35.   Eleven people were reported killed on Tuesday where snipers and roaming gunmen are a growing threat despite the deployment of thousands of police and paramilitary rangers.

36.   Factories in industrial parts of the city and markets stayed shut for the day, while police and paramilitary ranger patrols outnumbered the thin traffic on virtually deserted streets.

37.   The paramilitary rangers were checking vehicles in the streets while army personnel were manning the polling stations, they said.

38.   Trade was brisk as hundreds of men, women and children lined up in front of shops under the watchful eye of paramilitary rangers and police, witnesses said.

39.   Unidentified gunmen last week abducted four paramilitary rangers while they were shopping in Karachi and their mutilated bodies were found later in an orchard.

40.   Witnesses reported seeing armed men exchange heavy fire with paramilitary rangers in the district on Monday.