Tag: Rangers
Rangers kill 4 suspected Baloch militants in Karachi
Search operations have been expanded in the city after the dastardly attack on Karachi’s Ismaili Shia community on May 13 in which 45 persons were killed.
MPs demand for handing over corruption-marred KWSB to Rangers
Exposing political recruitments, corruption and inefficiency in the Karachi Water and Sewerage Board (KWSB) on Friday, some lawmakers demanded that the corruption-marred board should...
Rangers not a threat, should be thanked: DG Rangers
Director General (DG) Rangers Major General Bilal Akbar said Friday that the satisfactory conclusion of by-elections in Karachi's NA-246 proves that the paramilitary force...
Rangers want biometric machines for NA-246 by-polls
Following a meeting with Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Sardar Raza Khan in Islamabad on Tuesday, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader Jahangir Tareen said that counting of votes in NA-246 by-election will be completed in presence of Rangers, who have written to National Database Regulatory Authority (NADRA), calling for the installation of biometric system for the election.
Rangers detain two near Nine-Zero
Rangers overnight conducted a raid at a house located in the megacity area of Azizabad and arrested two people.
One of the captured men, Muazzam...
Rangers claim killing 5 TTP terrorists, including Karachi chief
Rangers raided a house on information that militants were planning to target the city’s Expo Centre with a bomb.
Rangers directed to re-explain their Nine Zero case
The Sindh High Court (SHC) on Tuesday ordered the Rangers to re-submit reply over petition of families of at least 60 alleged criminals arrested...
NA-246: PTI submits application for deployment of Rangers on polling day
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) on Saturday submitted an application to the Election Commission regarding security in by-elections in the NA-246 constituency.
The application requests the Chief...
Bombings in Karachi target Bohra mosque, Rangers
Two killed in motorcycle bomb explosion outside Saleh Mosque in Arambagh area after Friday prayers
Two Rangers personnel killed in suicide attack in North Nazimabad...
Dying man talks, starts naming names
In a damning ‘video confession’ made available to media just hours before the scheduled execution of MQM’s convicted hitman Saulat Mirza, the man condemned to death for carrying out several high-profile assassinations in Karachi accused the Muttahida Qaumi Movement chief Altaf Hussain and some other leaders of directly ordering the ‘hits’. The statement led to a postponement of Mirza’s execution for 72 hours in a hurriedly called meeting at the Presidency late on Wednesday night.
Nisar tells Britain to rein in ‘citizen’ Altaf
Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar has urged the British government to stop the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) chief Altaf Hussain from defaming Pakistani security forces and to take legal action against him from issuing statements threatening them, according to BBC Urdu.
Altaf denies threatening Rangers
Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) chief Altaf Hussain on Wednesday denied that he had threatened law enforcement personnel during a TV interview.
Addressing a gathering on...
Terrorist attack on Rangers check-post injures five
At least five Rangers’ officials sustained injuries in terrorist attack on Basar Rangers’ checkpost in Chilas on Sunday.
According to reports, over two dozen militants...
Rangers put MQM between a rock and a hard place
Compounding the worries of Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM), Rangers asserted Saturday that detained MQM worker Umair Siddiqui has been involved in 120 target killings while he has also confessed that MQM Sector In-Charge Rehman Bhola was the man behind the deadly 2012 Baldia Town fire that claimed at least 258 factory workers.
MQM chief decries victimisation
Demanding an open trial for alleged target-killer and party activist Umair Siddiui, Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) chief Altaf Hussain Saturday told a news channel that MQM, a party of middle-class workers, was being “intentionally maligned” and he did not even know the accused.
Govt endorses Rangers Nine Zero raid but tells MQM it wasn’t...
Interior Minister Nisar says Rangers ‘did nothing wrong and unlawful’ at MQM Headquarters, says it is a step in right direction
Senators debate Rangers raid,...
Al Qaeda commander among seven killed in Karachi raid
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Seven militants, including a local leader of global terrorist group al Qaeda, were killed in an encounter in Karachi on Thursday.
According to police officials,...