KARACHI: Pakistani paramilitary forces in the southern city of Karachi were on 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.
He said the force had deployed 16,000 troops in southern Sindh province, 10,000 of them in Karachi alone.
A policeman died of his injuries earlier on Friday after being shot during riots the previous day in Karachi, bringing the death toll from the unrest to 11.
An angry mob torched a branch of US fast-food giant KFC, witnesses in the city said, along with a petrol station and several vehicles, amid violence in several cities across the country.
The army said it had also sent troops into several cities in the south of the country ahead of the funeral of slain opposition leader Bhutto, the chief military spokesman said on Friday.
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.
