KARACHI: Ten more persons, including a fouryear-old child, died in the City yesterday [July 9] in the language disturbances sparked by the passage of the Sind Language Bill, raising the ...

toll to 22. The worst-affected areas of Liaquatabad, Nazimabad and Pak Colony were put under a 24-hour curfew from 5 p.m. yesterday. Troops were patrolling these localities in addition to the area near Sind Assembly and Sind Secretariat. Over 200 persons were injured including 19 who received bullet wounds. The trouble spread to nearly all parts of the City ... with burning roadblocks set up on almost all the main roads including the fashionable PECHS area. A number of vehicles, shops and a petrol pump were [set] on fire by demonstrators in Nazimabad, Liaquatabad, Old Golimar and New Karachi and over half a dozen wine shops were looted in Saddar and PECHS areas. Staff reporter [Meanwhile, as reported by the newspaper`s special representative from Rawalpindi,] The Indo-Pakistan accord reached at the Simla summit talks earlier this month is sure to receive an overwhelming support from the elected representatives of the people... . Policymaking bodies of all the major political parties in the Assembly ... decided to offer their support to the accord.