MQM SUPPORTERS ATTACK PAKISTAN TV STATION, CLASH WITH POLICE, ONE DEAD

Activists of a key political party clashed with police and ransacked a private television station in the southern Pakistani port city of Karachi on Monday, leaving at least one man dead and seven others injured. The violence erupted soon after the influential Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) party’s exiled chief, Altaf Hussain, castigated the media for not giving them due coverage. His activists, who had just ended a week-long hunger strike against a government crackdown against them, attacked the ARY station after Hussain addressed them by phone from self-imposed exile in London. MQM workers also clashed with police on the streets.