The World - News from Jan. 5, 1987
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The governor of Pakistan’s southern province of Sind resigned in the wake of last month’s ethnic riots in Karachi in which 186 people were killed. A government statement said that President Zia ul-Haq has accepted the resignation of Jahandad Khan, a retired army officer, and appointed Ashraf Tabani, a Karachi businessman, as his successor. Khan was out of the country in mid-December when rioting broke out between Pushtu-speaking Pushtuns, many of them Afghan refugees, and Urdu-speaking Mohajirs.
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