With some ongoing violence and thousands of troops deployed, Pakistani paramilitary forces have been given orders to shoot on sight in an effort to regain control of the streets.
KARACHI -- Pakistani paramilitary forces in the southern city of Karachi were Friday ordered to shoot rioters on sight to prevent unrest after the assassination of Benazir Bhutto, a paramilitary officer said.
"Paramilitary Rangers have been given orders to shoot on sight if they see miscreants indulging in anti-state activities, attacking government property or setting on fire private property," Major Athar Ali told reporters.
He said the force had deployed 16,000 troops in southern Sindh province, 10,000 of them in Karachi alone.
Troops were sent to the cities of Larkana, Sukkur, Shahdad Kot and Rohri in southern Sindh province, where Bhutto was to be buried later in the day following her assassination on Thursday, spokesman Major General Waheed Arshad told Agence France-Presse.
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