Tag: Extortion

Muhajir Qaumi Movement head Afaq Ahmad said on Monday that Altaf Hussain introduced extortion in Karachi. Talking to media on Monday, he said that Altaf...

Interior Minister Rehman Malik has said that target killing in Karachi has ended and operation has been started against the extortionists, according to a...

Prime Minister’s Task Force on Islamabad Chairman Faisal Sakhi Butt has said the rotten water supply lines in Islamabad would be replaced by spending...

The small traders and business community of the country’s financial hub have braved over Rs 3 billion losses on Saturday amid their strike call...

President Asif Ali Zardari has taken serious notice of complaints of extortion and poor law and order in Karachi. Spokesman to the President Farhatullah Babar...

The Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM), a partner in the ruling coalition, on Friday threw a spanner into the works of its ally, the Pakistan...

Staging a walkout from the National Assembly (NA) against rising incidents of extortion and target killings in Karachi, the Pakistan People’s Party’s (PPP) coalition...

Legislation will be introduced in the Sindh Assembly soon to curb the menace of land grabbing and extortion, Home Minister Manzoor Wasan said on...

Police and Rangers have failed to provide security to citizens and the politicians of Karachi should stop their politics of extortion, Supreme Court Bar...

Pakistan Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) President Asma Jehangir has accused the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Aman Committee of being an extortion wing, a...

A petition was filed in the Lahore High Court (LHC) on Saturday seeking action against the extortion mafia allegedly operating at bus stands throughout...

The investigation team probing the Rs 9 billion Bank of Punjab (BoP) loan scandal submitted another report to the Supreme Court (SC) on Thursday...

ISLAMABAD - Traders in Karachi suffered around Rs 3 billion loss as all the markets remained closed on Tuesday as a result of the strike call given against extortion while the members of the two of their representative bodies clashed at the Polo Ground.
In response to the All Karachi Tajir Ittihad (AKTI)'s strike call, all businesses were shut in Clifton, Defence, Tariq Road, Bahadurabad, Saddar and MA Jinnah. "The closure of business was aimed to warn the government that the

ISLAMABAD - The Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) warned the government on Sunday that if rising incidents of extortion in Karachi and increases in the price of petroleum products every month were not stopped, it would be extremely difficult for the MQM to support the government in the upcoming budget, a source privy to the meeting between a MQM delegation and Pakistan People's Party (PPP) ministers told Pakistan Today.
The MQM delegation comprising MQM Deputy Convener Farooq

KARACHI - Karachi traders announced a strike on April 5 against increasing incidents of extortion in the city, as both the federal and the provincial government failed to control criminal activities.
Karachi Chambers of Commerce and Industry (KCCI) announced a strike after the attack on two auto parts traders by extortionists on Tuesday. KCCI President Muhammad Saeed Shafiq told Pakistan Today that in the face of the government's failure to curb extortion, the chamber finally

KARACHI - Karachi traders announced a strike on April 5 against increasing incidents of extortion in the city, as both the federal and the provincial government failed to control criminal activities.
Karachi Chambers of Commerce and Industry (KCCI) announced a strike after the attack on two auto parts traders by extortionists on Tuesday. KCCI President Muhammad Saeed Shafiq told Pakistan Today that in the face of the government's failure to curb extortion, the chamber finally