Death Threats Plague Business as Karachi Gangs Prepare for Polls

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The death threat came in a seven-line handwritten note that included a menacing insert: a spent bullet casing taped to the bottom of the page.

“If you don’t deliver us 1 million rupees ($10,440), we’ll cut you into pieces and kill your entire family,” read the unsigned letter that was delivered to a Karachi shopkeeper by a messenger he didn’t know and then passed to police.