And they are right from the border with Afghanistan down to the port city of Karachi.
Last Thursday's attack happened hours after her arrival in the southern port city of Karachi.
The MQM dominates politics in the city of Karachi, the capital of the southern province of Sindh.
Observers also question whether elections can take place safely in the sprawling mega-city of Karachi, Pakistan's main commercial hub.
Musharraf flew to the southern city of Karachi from Dubai on March 24.
Seven people were killed in twin bombings at the busy Hyderi Market in the southern port city of Karachi.
Pakistanis reacted with similar scorn when their capital was moved from the historic city of Karachi to characterless Islamabad.
But both sides refused to play in the volatile city of Karachi, where the New Zealand team witnessed a bus bomb in 2002.
On December 25th Mr Khan staged the second blockbuster rally in as many months, in the volatile city of Karachi.
The influx of ethnic Pashtuns from northwest Pakistan upset the delicate demographic balance last month in the port city of Karachi.
Pakistan state television said that some 50 people were injured in the southern city of Karachi, where strong tremors were felt.
The Bhoja Air Boeing 737, which had flown from the southern city of Karachi, crashed on its approach to Islamabad's airport.
The ordeal proved embarrassing for Usman Sharif, a candidate for the hard-line religious Jamaat-e-Islami party, in the southern city of Karachi.
At least 10 people have been killed in a bomb attack on an election meeting in the southern Pakistani city of Karachi.
The vote in the southern city of Karachi was not only marred by violence Saturday, but also threats to election commission staff.
The attack in the southern city of Karachi killed 145 other people.
Mullah Turabi, who was reportedly arrested in the Pakistani port city of Karachi seven years ago, was said to be in poor health.
Pakistani news channels showed buildings shaking in the southern city of Karachi, where people in panic came out from offices and homes, AP reported.
Mullah Baradar, reported to have been picked up by Pakistani and US intelligence agents in the southern Pakistani city of Karachi, may have become too independent.
Bhutto was targeted by an Oct. 18 suicide attack on a homecoming procession in the southern city of Karachi as she returned from years in exile.
The worst allegations of rigging in Saturday's poll focused on the giant southern city of Karachi, where Mr. Sharif's Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz party didn't win any seats.
Maulana Hyderi was driving back to the southern city of Hyderabad, 200km (124 miles) east of the port city of Karachi, at the time of the attack.
As recently as May citizens of the financial and port city of Karachi thronged the streets and attacked a government electricity office because of long and frequent outages.
Tremors were felt in southern Pakistan, including the city of Karachi, and across Balochistan province from Gwadar on the southern coast to Quetta and the border with Iran.
In 1995, with the port city of Karachi rapidly descending into anarchy and business grinding to a halt, Bhutto sent in paramilitary police units to quell the fighting.
"I took this decision in the best interest of Pakistan, " Musharraf said at a ceremony late Sunday to inaugurate a bridge in the southern port city of Karachi.
In a separate incident, the leader of a minority political party was killed Wednesday as he drove through the southern Pakistani city of Karachi, a party official told CNN.
Shiite Muslims, including Hazaras, have often been targeted by Sunni extremists in the province of Baluchistan where Quetta is the capital, the southern city of Karachi and northwestern Pakistan.
In the biggest attack on election day, 11 people were killed Saturday morning in twin bombings targeting an ANP office in the southern city of Karachi, a police official said.
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