Thirty-four persons--the majority of them reportedly workers ofMrs.Benazir Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party Parliamentarians (PPPP)--werekilled and over 100 others were injured in different parts of Karachi onMay 12, 2007, when the abortive attempt of Justice Iftikhar Ahmed Chaudhury, thesuspended Chief Justice of the Pakistan Supreme Court, to enter the city fromthe airport to address a pro-democracy meeting was violently resisted by thepro-Musharraf Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM), the dominant partner in the rulingcoalition of Sindh.