Karachi''s plague of violence brings armoured car boom

KARACHI: As an unprecedented wave of killings and kidnappings hits Karachi, the Pakistani city's elite are splashing out to have their luxury cars made bomb and bulletproof.The sprawling metropolis of 18 million people on the Arabian Sea is Pakistan's economic heart, with ranks of factories, import-export wheeler-dealers and slick bankers.But it is also the crucible of the country's worst excesses of violence, criminality and inequality. Bloody gang wars fed by ethnic and political bitterness,

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