Karachi at standstill after bombing

Thousands of Pakistanis attended funerals yesterday for victims of a bombing that killed 45 people in a Shia Muslim area of Karachi, the latest in a series of devastating attacks ahead of elections.
The bomb exploded in Abbas Town as worshippers came out of mosques, ripping through two apartment blocks, setting one of them on fire and trapping people beneath piles of rubble.
There has been no claim of responsibility, but suspicion will likely fall on banned Sunni extremist organisation Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, which has claimed major attacks on Shiites in the city of Quetta, and on the Pakistani Taliban.