Snipers gunned down seven people on the last day of a Muslim holiday, bringing to 17 the number of people killed in Karachi during the three-day festival.
The sniper shootings Sunday and many of the other weekend deaths appeared to involve rival factions of the Mohajir Quami Movement, a militant political group that represents Muslims who have migrated to Pakistan from India.Three police officers were among those killed between Friday and Sunday, the Eid-al-Fitr holiday that follows the Islamic holy month of Ramadan.
Police officers have become regular targets of gunmen who have terrorized Pakistan's largest city of 10 million people, where shootouts between political and religious rivals have become an almost daily ritual.
The rival factions of the Mohajir Quami Movement have been battling each other for years, and militant Sunni and Shiite Muslim groups have been fighting for the past year.