A senior politician has been shot dead in Karachi the evening before a partial re-run of the general election in Saturday.
Zahra Shahid Hussain was the vice president of Imran Khan's Pakistan's Movement for Justice party.
The general election, which took place in on Saturday, was highly contested. The partial re-run was called after Imran Khan's party accused the dominant party of vote rigging and intimidation.
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