Tag: Karachi

KARACHI - The Karachi and Hyderabad district governments have been allowed to establish community centres, and decorative gates and monuments after the PPP and the MQM reached an understanding over the issue in their recent reconciliation efforts, it has been learnt.
Reliable sources in the Sindh Local Government Department told Pakistan Today that the remaining 21 district governments, however, would have to seek prior permission before constructing any community centres or

KARACHI - Some might remember the early 90s when people were shocked to watch videos of bomb blasts, mass killings and curfews on the streets of Baghdad, Iraq on the state-run TV channel's 'Khabarnama', however, the same have become a routine matter in Karachi.
The once famous city of lights has witnessed the worst form of violence in the recent past. From bodies found in gunny bags and ethnic killings, which are now called 'targeted killings', the situation is becoming worse

BADIN - The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz knows who the perpetrators of the current wave of assassinations in Karachi, party chief Nawaz Sharif said on Monday.
"We will not allow public mandate to be ambushed at any cost," Nawaz said, adding that time had come to leave party politics and talk about Pakistan. "The government must expose the faces of these culprits," he said.
"Politics for someone's own interests is sinful, but the politics the PML-N practices is for the sake

KARACHI - Sixteen journalists belonging to an ethnic group are on the hit list of people involved in targeted killing in Karachi, Pakistan Today has learnt.
Ten of them work with newspapers and six are with the electronic media. Intelligence agencies have sent the list of their names to the Sindh Home Department.
A high-ranking official of the Interior Ministry made a telephone call to a journalist of a private TV channel and told him that he is on the hit-list of the

KARACHI - The federal and Sindh governments have decided to impose partial curfew in several areas of Karachi considered criminal hot spots in order to arrest terrorists involved in targeted killings, sources claimed on Sunday.
Personnel of Sindh Police, Pakistan Rangers Sindh and the Federal Investigation Agency would join forces to carry out search operations in the marked areas. Helicopters will be used for aerial surveillance of the city by commandos during the day, who will

KARACHI - The Sindh government is openly opposing the idea to ply 2,000 environment-friendly CNG buses in Karachi and leave other districts with a shabby transport system.
The Environment Ministry, in collaboration with the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), had planned to bring in 2,000 environment-friendly CNG buses for the province; however, federal authorities are trying to use them only on Karachi's major arteries, sources in the provincial government told

KARACHI - Violence in Karachi intensified after a former naib nazim of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) was targeted by unidentified men in Farid Colony on Saturday.
The death toll has reached 29 in 48 hours after seven more people were gunned down in several parts of the metropolis, whereas the number of injured people reached 43 after 13 more were targeted. Badshah Khan, 40, was gravely wounded when three unidentified men opened fire on him as he left his house in Sector 10

ISLAMABAD - The Pakistan Muslim League Quaid-e-Azam (PML-Q) and the Awami National Party (ANP) submitted adjournment motions in the National Assembly and the Senate on Saturday to discuss the ongoing violence and assassinations
in Karachi.
PML-Q Deputy Parliamentary leader Amir Muqaam and the Awami National Party (ANP) senators Afrasyab Khattak and Zahid Khan submitted the adjournment motions in the National Assembly and the Senate respectively on behalf of their

KARACHI - Twenty-one people were killed and over 30 injured in a day in the latest wave of targeted violence in the country's financial capital.
Taking notice of the killing spree, the Karachi CCPO suspended station house officers (SHOs) of Korangi Industrial Area, Malir City, Malir, Azizabad, Landhi and Gulberg police precincts over their failure to control criminal activities in respective areas. On Friday, incidents of violence erupted in Banaras, Qasba Colony and some parts

ISLAMABAD - Expressing serious concern over unabated spate of killings of innocent people and political workers in Karachi, Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz central spokesperson Ahsan Iqbal has demanded the government take the National Assembly into confidence and apprise lawmakers of the details of the tragic incidents.
In a statement on Friday, Ahsan Iqbal demanded a comprehensive briefing on killings that, he said, have shaken the entire nation.
"It is a matter of grave

KARACHI - Declaring the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) supply route from Karachi to Kabul for the allied forces in Afghanistan unsafe, the federal government has asked the home departments of Sindh and Balochistan to adopt a foolproof security plan for the itinerary, sources in the Sindh Home Department told Pakistan Today.
They said that the NATO supply route is under attack by unidentified suspects, whereas goods transporters are being uncooperative with the

KARACHI - Eight people, including three ANP activists and two MQM activists, were killed in separate incidents of violence in Karachi on Wednesday.
The three ANP activists were gunned down after a clash with the Muttahida Organising Committee, a sister wing of the MQM, in Bhittaiabad. Khayal Wazir was shot dead by unidentified gunmen near the ANP Ward in Bhittaiabad.
Within 10 minutes of the incident, another ANP activist, identified as Saleem Durrani, was shot dead while

karachi - All Pakistan Newspaper Society expressed gratitude to Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani for accepting its requests in a meeting in Islamabad. Hameed Haroon, President APNS had told the PM that APNS was going to establish an office in Karachi and needed Rs 50 million from the government, also requesting the PM to lay the foundation stone of the building. PM agreed to both these requests and said the amount will be paid in two installments. The APNS delegation also asked the

KARACHI - Various religious groups organised a massive rally on Sunday to protest against any attempt by the government to amend the blasphemy law. The leaders of these parties demanded the prime minister announce in the National Assembly that the government will not make any changes in the controversial law.
They also announced that a public meeting would be held in Lahore on January 30. Thousands of activists of religious organisations gathered at Purani Numaish Chowrangi and

KARACHI - JUI chief Fazlur Rehman said on Saturday that the disturbance in Karachi was a conspiracy of the government to foil the planned rally and public meeting in Karachi of religious forces.
Speaking at a press conference after a meeting of Tahreek-e-Namoos Risalat, a platform comprising various religious parties, he said that the government's conspiracy will not work, and planned rally and public meeting will go ahead as planned. He also condemned to what he called a

LAHORE - Habib Bank and PIA qualified for Division I Final of the Quaid-e-Azam Trophy after PIA beat Karachi Blues by an innings and 16 runs at Karachi's National Stadium on day three of the four-day match on Saturday.
Karachi Blues made 146 runs in their first innings while PIA responded with 262 runs and later bowled out Karachi for 100 runs in the second innings. Aizaz-Bin Ilyas was the star of the match, taking 14 wickets, seven each in either innings for 65 and 45 runs

The Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) swings back to the treasury benches, the coalition survives and Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani stays in office. The chances of a no-confidence motion against him had already diminished as the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), the only party that could have unseated the government, decided not to act decisively and just presented a 12-point interim agenda to the prime minister with a 72-hour deadline to say a categorical "yes" or "no" to.