A Pakistani police officer gestures toward the camera as others take positions during a gunbattle between two rival groups in Karachi, Pakistan. Gunbattles and attacks killed at least eight people and wounded 25 others as Pakistan's political crisis descended into violence between rival parties ahead of planned protests over President Gen. Pervez Musharraf's suspension of the chief justice.

First published in the May 12, 2007, 10:57 a.m. edition

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