Followers of the MQM, a party dedicated to Karachi's Urdu-speaking muhajir community, were in the thick of the killing.
Political parties are organised along ethnic or sectarian lines, and represent the city's Urdu-speakers, Sindhis, Baloch, Pashtuns and Barelvi Sunnis.
In the diary, which she kept for the BBC's Urdu service under a pen name, she exposed the suffering caused by the militants as they ruled.
Local driver Qazi Faisal told BBC Urdu's Aijaz Mahar that people thought these brothers were smugglers.
He was a soft-spoken man with an unassuming manner, says BBC Urdu's Dilawar Wazir Khan.
Lawyer Naveed Muzaffar Khan, who is representing the women, told BBC Urdu's Nosheen Abbas that "there was a consent form but they have not agreed to the film being screened in Pakistan".
Other neighbours in the Hashmi Colony area told BBC Urdu's Aijaz Mahar that the brothers posed as landlords from the fertile Charsadda area of north-western Pakistan who had moved to Abbottabad because of its pleasant climate.
No-entry signs at the back of the coalition's Baghdad headquarters are in Urdu and Bengali, not Arabic.
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In recent months, on-site investigations of more than 100 of the roughly 2, 300 facilities in the United States, selected randomly, have been conducted under Mr. Gaubatz's supervision by trained counterintelligence professionals, many of whom have Arabic, Farsi or Urdu language skills.
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The data from the 2011 census showed the vast majority of Manchester's residents used English as their main language, but also reported significant numbers using either Urdu, Polish, Arabic, Farsi, Somali, Panjabi or Bengali as their first tongue.
Malala came to prominence when, as an 11-year-old, she wrote a diary for BBC Urdu, giving an account of how her school in Mingora town dealt with the Taliban's 2009 edict to close girls' schools.
Urdu paper Mashriq hoped that politicians will take efforts to avoid causing any harm to the country's democratic system.
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