According to the Saturday report, at least 1,034 people have been killed in the first ten months of 2010, as August witnessed the highest death toll of the year with 162 people murdered in various localities of Pakistan's financial hub.
Most of the deaths were related to the spate of killings in the city which different political and religious parties are blaming rival groups of committing.
The report comes as tension simmers in Pakistan's largest city, after more than 70 people, including political activists, lost their lives in recent weeks.
The CPLC report says that the number of deaths in 2010 is the highest in the Pakistan since the wave of killings in 1995 that claimed 1,782 lives.
The number is expected to increase in the remaining two months of the year.
On October 17, gunmen assaulted people belonging to different ethnic and political groups across Karachi ahead of a by-election, killing at least 26 people and wounding 60 others.
The by-election was held for a seat in the Sindh provincial assembly following the assassination of a lawmaker of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement in August. The movement is the most influential party in Karachi.
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