At least five people, including two policemen, were killed in separate incidents of violence occurring in Pakistan's port city of Karachi Tuesday.
The killings were witnessed barely hours after country's Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan claimed target killings were witnessing a decline in the city.
A man, chairman of a mosque committee, was shot dead in the city's Gol Market Nazimabad.
In another incident, two people were killed when unidentified men opened fire on a rikshaw in New Karachi area, police said. Meanwhile, two policemen were killed in a firing incident.