HYDERABAD/KARACHI: A special assistant to the outgoing provincial government was supposedly arrested by the Rangers after raiding his residence and a petrol pump in Daulatpur taluka, District Benazirabad on Wednesday night.
According to a local media report, Ismail Dahiri, who is also an office-bearer of the Pakistan Peoples Party’s Nawabshah chapter, was arrested along with his brother and 40 other suspects. Moreover, five Kalashnikovs, as many grenades and 12 magazines of the weapon were seized from their possession.
An FIR was later registered at Daulatpur Police Station on a police complaint, nominating the arrested suspects for possessing illegal weapons.
In the past one week alone, the paramilitary force, in collaboration with the police, has arrested at least 70 suspects, including the 40 detained on Wednesday, in around a dozen raids – breaking all previous records of the Rangers’ actions in rural Sindh during the PPP government’s tenure. These raids were conducted in Qambar Shahdatkot, Qasimabad area of Hyderabad, Nawabshah, Mirpur Mathelo, Mirpurkhas, Lalu Lashari Goth in Hyderabad, Khairpur, Naseerabad, Thatta and Larkana.