Differences between political parties has led the country’s economic hub to anarchy where 34 people were killed on Thursday, taking the total death toll to 58 in three consecutive days of violence, as Interior Minister Rehman Malik said a targeted operation would be carried out to stem the killings in the city.
Malik arrived here on the directions of President Asif Ali Zardari to hold talks with the provincial chief minister and help the government in restoring peace to the city. He said the government would deploy 1,000 FC personnel to assist the police and other law enforcement agencies in enforcing the law in the city.
The president has also called former Sindh home minister Zulfiqar Mirza and Senior Minister for Education Pir Mazharul Haq to Islamabad to discuss the situation with them. Political circles took this move as a possible change in the Sindh government’s top slot. Earlier, ambulances had been racing through the city’s troubled areas all day, ferrying bodies and the injured to hospitals. The worst incident of bloodshed took place in North Nazimabad where 10 armed men opened indiscriminate fire on a passenger bus killing 10 and 16 others.
West Deputy Inspector General Imran Yaqoob told Pakistan Today that the passenger bus was attacked by criminals, who took shelter in Abdullah College due to tension in Orangi Town.
Seven motorcycles and a car were torched in Valika Chowrangi in the ensuing violence. Two people were killed, and six injured when unidentified armed men opened fire at another bus passenger in the SITE-A police precincts. Another 13 people were killed in Orangi Town.
Eight people including a minor girl were killed in the Peerabad police precincts, three were killed in Gulistan-e-Jauhar, while another two were killed in an ambush near Mosamiyat Chowrangi in Mobina Town police limits.A body of Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) member was found in Jam Goth in Memon Goth police precincts and two were shot dead in Baldia Town. A body was recovered by the Surjani Town police in Lyari Expressway, another body was found in Ramsawami while two were found in Nabi Bukhsh police precincts. Around 60 people were also injured in firing incidents across the city.
Forty-one of the injured were taken to Abbasi Shaheed Hospital, 14 were admitted in Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre (JPMC) and five were taken to Civil Hospital Karachi (CHK) for treatment.
A security official said several neighbourhoods remained tense and gunfire could be heard as the sun set. Local residents said they were virtually confined to their homes because of indiscriminate firing. “Many people have run out of their food stock. There is no milk for children and no chance of patients being shifted to hospitals for treatment,” said Mohammad Asghar, a schoolteacher in the Orangi area. “We are left at the mercy of trigger-happy scoundrels and the security forces are conspicuous by their absence,” he added.
MQM rally: Meanwhile, the MQM decided to observe a day of mourning and take out a rally from the Sindh Assembly to the Chief Minister’s House to protest the government’s failure to curb targeted killings. “Our supporters are being killed to punish us for quitting the ruling coalition,” MQM leader Raza Haroon told AFP. “We have decided that our parliamentarians would hold peaceful rallies in Karachi and Islamabad on Friday.” Meanwhile the Sindh chief minister ordered law enforcement agencies to shoot at sight anyone violating the law.
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very sad yaar…..afsoos
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It is MQM who saved Karachi and other Urban centres of Sindh from What that is happening currently in Orangi, We all know who is behind this Government Supported Killing Spree In City.
We need to Make MQM more Strong in all aspects. Citizens now need to guard themselves and take weapons and Rifles with Sidearms with them. No government and Police even Rangers will protect them. And Last Things, Pakhtun Brothers and Sisters in Karachi, This my appeal to you, Please, understand that ANP is Gang of Thugs and Gansters and Terrorists. They are also the Land Mafia and Drug Mafia Protectors. Please, Don’t Vote Awami National Party next time. Vote Whoever you want our dear Pakhtuns, Like Jamaat-e-Islami or JUI or JUP or Muttahida but Please don’t vote ANP. We need to Throw out ANP out of the City then The Karachi Peace will Prevail. InshAllah!
PT needs to show some courage and put the ethnicity of the deceased in these reports. According to official statistics at one point yesterday, 80 of the dead were Pashtuns while only 7 were Mohajir. This was reported in Mehr Bokhari’s show last night and the MQM representative responded that if you want the killing to continue then keep reporting stats like that. It is very disgusting to see MQM cry crocodile tears over the deaths for which, it is responsible. Media needs to expose these lies, the dead deserve at least this much, that it be known to the world that they were killed because of their ethnicity.
The whole problem lies with the media who has been showing deriliction of their duties by covering the crimes of one organisation who is at present engaged in killing ethnic pashtoons. The media channel anchors are frothing in their mouth by telling the viewers that terrorists are continuing their activities and killing people but even after knowing who those are will never name them. Such support from media to this ethnic terrorists is encouraging for these murderers.
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Ever since MQM was created Pakistan and Karachi are its worst casualty. Pakistan has been destabilized and entire country become 'yarghamal' of urban militant most dangerously armed terrorists outfit-the ,MQM which is say and night projected by Karachi TV channels, its anchorpersons,newscasters,its loyalist, workers as ,'masoom victim' no matter they have killed thousands of innocent and extorted billions of dollars in bathakhori.by Express,ARY,AJJ,Samaa,CNBC,Dunya,partly Geo ,Newsone etcetc.They are full mparty to crimes of MQM of commission and omission with one objective to keep Pakistani nation focused on MQM specific issues and let poor man issues, country go to dogs. At the same ruin nation by destroying moral values by bombardment by Indianes,westerined,elitists,fashion,model representative ’choochare’ TV entertainment family shows.Al is a covert strategy to weaken Pakistan ideologically, economically ,politically till MQN=M-Karachi media barons,MQM members, loyalists or terrorized by their fascists tactics come to rule in Center.Imagine,three dozen civil and were killed in Karachi and Express TV was engaged in TV talk shows with Khushbakt,Haider Rizvi to improve MQM-Altaf Hussein image as
messiahs’.Thatt is what all other Karachi TV based Tv channels do which should be closed and all political parties banned to contest next election involved in target killings and bathakhori in Karachi.However,Naqwaz Sharif is ashamed to bring around MQNMM in ‘opposition-never to be for most unreliable opportunists role of MQM.The immediate price paid by Pakistanis is the above programme in Lahore under the nose of MLN,Nwaza Sharif who perhaps lost common sense of politics to besmirch his reputation by partnering PPP-Zardari coalition partner for 45 months and of Musharrasf for nearly 100 months .To cut down load shedding of 3000 MGWT,let 90 % Karachi and and other TV channels be immediately cut,cable network closed, time rations for remainder ten percent of six hours each in day and evening be implemented to save Pakistan from’gurge ajals,gurge baran’in politics and let us try new,honest noble and competent people to represent and rule us.Ban these parties in power and ban ninety percent TV channels.
If MQM would not have been there all URDU Speakings would have been killed by now since this is what its taught in Army in Punjab. If you kill a Mahajir you get sawab and if you get killed your Shaheed. Wow, we call ourselves muslims. Muslims killing Muslims is a Shaheed, i guess these so called muslims dont know what Islam is there nothing more then Munafiq and they have a worst place in hell then kafir ! Inshallah those who're killed will get justice in the hereafter. This country is not a Muslim country its a country of Hypocrites !!
What a load of rubbish.
I WISH THIS COUNTRY WAS NEVER MADE. CUZ THIS IS WHAT WE GET AS URDU SPEAKING. I SAW NO REPRESENTATION FOR US NO JOBS FOR US NO ONE TO SHELTER US NO ONE TO LOOK OUT FOR US UNTIL MQM. WE FORGET, MUSLIMS IN SUBCONTINENT WERE ALSO MAHAJIRS WHO MIGRATED AND SPREAD ISLAM. SO IF YOU HATE MAHAJIR THEN CURSE YOURSELVES FOR BEING MUSLIMS CUZ YOU WERE CONVERTED OR WERE A PART OF THOSE MAHAJIR'S TOO.
GET YOUR HEAD STRAIGHT, YOU CANT EXPECT US TO TAKE IT ALL LAYING DOWN. YOU WANNA END IT ? THEN END YOUR HATE FOR US, END YOUR RACISM!!!
Almost 100 Pakistani citizens have been gunned down in Karachi, while both provincial government and federal government seems to be least pushed. Just imagine the PM considers it appropriate to go to UK to be present for his son's graduation, while people are dying in Karachi. Where is the Government?. Do we see something even remotely similar to a government functioning in Karachi? This is moment of shame for this country.
Those who believe Pakistan was not created should back to India who came here till 1973 and after,I am a Urdu speaking mujhajir and living in Karachi for sixty five years and feel ashamed of reading such comment .The comments by MQM myopics on jobless here,it is in every community,in every province..NUMERICALLY THE WORST UNEMPLOYED IN NUMBERS ARE PEOPLE OF pINJAB SINCE ITS POPULATION IS AROUND IOO MILLION.THE JOBLESS THERE COULD BE 3 CRORE AND IN Karchi in coulple of thousands .WE urdu speaking are spread every where in Pakistan in millions and no one talks there our getting their jobs.BUT we shout,kill them and yet prove angels.We are the devils and ungrateful Pakiatani not forgetting Hindustan.If we love India,we better go back. to give peace here.Target killings,bathakhori is thhe name of politics by the enemies of Pakistan.
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