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KARACHI - An anti-People's Amn Committee rally organised by Lyari's Kachchi Rabita Council (KRC) was prevented from reaching Bilawal House by Sindh Home Minister Zulfiqar Mirza on Sunday, following marathon negotiations and promises of the deployment of a police officer with a "good reputation" in Lyari.
KRC had announced a march and sit-in outside Bilawal House to protest what they claimed were Amn Committee-backed killings of Kachchi youth and extortions in the area. A large

KARACHI- The People's Amn Committee is a welfare organization, similar to Muttahida Qaumi Movement's (MQM) Khidmat-e-Khalq Foundation, Jamaat-e-Islami's (JI) Al-Khidmat, or even the Edhi Foundation, argued Sindh Home Minister Dr Zulfiqar Mirza on Thursday during a media interaction after the Sindh Assembly session.
"The Amn Committee is becoming popular among the masses, which means that they are doing something good," Mirza said, adding that the MQM's allegations against the

KARACHI - The People's Amn Committee is a welfare organization, similar to Muttahida Qaumi Movement's (MQM) Khidmat-e-Khalq Foundation, Jamaat-e-Islami's (JI) Al-Khidmat, or even the Edhi Foundation, argued Sindh Home Minister Dr Zulfiqar Mirza on Thursday during a media interaction after the Sindh Assembly session.
"The Amn Committee is becoming popular among the masses, which means that they are doing something good," Mirza said, adding that the MQM's allegations against the

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The home minister said that he was also ready to review cases of MQM workers that were instituted against them on false grounds. He also dispelled the notion that the PPP was no longer interested in removing misunderstandings with the MQM. Mirza said that he had already taken Sindh Governor Dr Ishratul Ebad Khan into confidence over the Lyari issue. However, he said, he was disappointed by MQM leaders' allegations that he was supporting extortionists and

KARACHI - The Pakistan People's Party (PPP) and Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) are at loggerheads once again - courtesy Sindh Home Minister Zulfiqar Mirza. The home minister on Sunday finally accepted the People's Amn Committee of Lyari as one of the PPP's sub-organisation, sparking a retort from MQM leaders that they wanted to leave the Sindh government. The situation has prompted President Asif Ali Zardari and Interior Minister Rehman Malik to take notice of Mirza's statement, but

KARACHI - Sindh Home Minister Dr Zulfiqar Mirza and PML-Q leader Pervaiz Elahi's son Moonis Elahi met at the home minister's house on Wednesday where the two decided that if the PML-N expelled PPP ministers from Punjab, the PPP and PML-Q would form a joint opposition, sources said.
Mirza's private secretary and other department officers, along with police and Rangers personnel provided complete protocol to Moonis when he arrived at the Karachi airport from abroad. Moonis was

KARACHI - A few hours after PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif demanded that talks with the government can only resume after Sindh Home Minister Dr Zulfiqar Mirza apologises for his remarks against him, the latter issued a statement saying that his speech in Lyari on Sunday was not aimed at hurting Sharif's feelings.
In his statement issued on Monday, Dr Mirza said that he has nothing against Nawaz Sharif, but the PML-N must avoid making undemocratic moves. Dr Mirza said that the PML-N

KARACHI - Sindh Home Minister Dr Zulfikar Mirza on Sunday announced an all out war against PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif during a charged address to a public rally in Lyari area of Karachi. "I am announcing war against Nawaz Sharif and [PTI chief] Imran Khan. Nawaz must avoid undemocratic attempts. I am not a thug, but can become one to protect my country. The numbers game of 'Takht-e-Lahore' is an old story," he said.
Mirza's comments have come days after PML-N leader and Punjab

KARACHI - In what is being viewed as a major development in PPP-MQM ties, Sindh Home Minister Zulfiqar Mirza - whose tirade against the MQM had strained relations between the two parties - visited MQM headquarters Nine-Zero on Friday. He was accompanied by Interior Minister Rehman Malik, Chief Minister Qaim Ali Shah and provincial Local Government Minister Agha Siraj Durrani.
The PPP delegation was welcomed by MQM Rabita Committee Deputy Convener Dr Farooq Sattar, who especially

KARACHI - Interior Minister Rehman Malik on Thursday dashed to Karachi to assure the Sindh government, particularly Home Minister Zulfiqar Mirza, of taking them on board on all steps being taken in Karachi to maintain

ISLAMABAD - Speculations are rife in the federal capital that to appease the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM), the government is likely to pull Sindh Home Minister Zulfiqar Mirza out of the province and elevate him as a federal minister.
A federal government source told Pakistan Today that while the MQM leaders publicly claimed that their party had no reservation against Mirza, who is a close confidante of President Asif Ali Zardari, it had conveyed to the government that the

KARACHI - Home Minister Dr Zulfiqar Mirza on Wednesday disowned the Rangers action in Orangi Town, expressing strong reservation on the power of the para-military force to conduct a search operation in Karachi.
"The Rangers in Karachi comes under the control of the provincial home department, but neither did my department give approval for this action, nor were any provincial authorities - the chief minister, Sindh inspector general of police (IGP), Karachi's CCPO or myself -

MELBOURNE - Belgium's Justine Henin came back from a set down to beat Indian qualifier Sania Mirza 5-7, 6-3, 6-1 in a torrid first round clash at the Australian Open on Monday. Henin, who won the tournament in 2004 and finished runner-up in 2006 and 2010, needed all her legendary fighting qualities to subdue an inspired Mirza in 2hr 12mins. The 28-year-old Belgian looked on track for a straightforward win when she served for the first set at 5-4, only to stumble and allow Mirza to

KARACHI - There will be no objection if the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) quits the government, Sindh Home Minister Dr Zulfiqar Ali Mirza said on Sunday while talking to the media at Wasan House in Khairpur.
"The MQM had become part of the government of its own free will. If the party now decides to leave the alliance, it will be their own decision and we have no objection over it."
He said he never held any one party responsible for terrorism. "I don't know why whenever I

ISLAMABAD: Assuring the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) that its grievances would be addressed, Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani on Sunday barred Sindh Home Minister Zulfiqar Mirza from issuing statements in the future on contentious issues pertaining to coalition partners.
After meeting an MQM delegation, Gilani telephoned Mirza to ask him about the statement in which he had accused the MQM of being involved in assassinations in Karachi.
The Sindh home minister told the

KARACHI - While Sindh Home Minister Dr Zulfiqar Mirza roared at a press conference on Saturday that he stood by his statement of target killers' association with political parties, including the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM), Senior Education and Literacy Minister Pir Mazharul Haq accused the media of creating a rift between coalition partners.
Addressing a press conference at the PPP Media Cell, Haq claimed that there was no serious difference between the PPP and the MQM. In

KARACHI: Sixty percent of the people held for targeted killings in Karachi belong to a "major city-based political party" while the rest are also affiliated with other political parties, Sindh Home Minister Dr Zulfiqar Ali Mirza said on Monday while addressing members of the Karachi Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KCCI).
Without taking any names, the home minister said that 38 of the 60 people arrested for targeted killings belong to a Karachi-based political party, while the