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At least 18 people have been killed in the past two weeks by toxic chemicals from factories in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan.
2023-01-27

Fourteen people are killed and several others are injured by a gas explosion in a sewage system in Karachi, Pakistan.
2021-12-18

Pakistan reports its first confirmed case of the Omicron variant in a 57-year-old unvaccinated woman from Karachi.
2021-12-13

In Pakistan, the Sindh High Court orders the release of Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, initially sentenced to death for the kidnapping and murder of American journalist Daniel Pearl in Karachi in 2002. The government opposes his release on the basis of public safety; both the government and Pearl's family will appeal the decision.
2020-12-24

Four people are killed in an armed assault on the Chinese consulate in Karachi, Pakistan. Three attackers are also dead. The attack is claimed by the Balochistan Liberation Army.
2018-11-23

A Pakistani police officer accidentally detonates a grenade in an anti-terrorism court in Karachi, injuring himself and a court assistant. The officer was attempting to demonstrate a grenade detonator to a judge and said the grenade was defused before pulling the pin.
2016-04-12

Over 200 die of heatstroke in Pakistan's Karachi over the weekend in a record heatwave.
2015-06-22

A traffic accident between an oil tanker truck and passenger coach en route to Shikarpur from Karachi on the Pakistan National Highway Link Road near Gulshan-e-Hadeed, Karachi, results in at least 57 dead and scores injured.
2015-01-10

Pakistani factory fires: Pakistan files murder charges, for "utter negligence", against managers and government officials responsible for the safety of the burned Karachi factory.
2012-09-13

Dr Imran Farooq, an exiled leader of Pakistan's Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) is murdered in the North London suburb of Edgware, England leading to schools and shops being closed in Farooq's home city of Karachi.
2010-09-16