Tag: Violence
Karachi violence to top agenda in meeting of corps commanders
The Karachi violence would be the top agenda in the forthcoming corps commanders’ meeting, likely to be held later this week with Army Chief...
Violence takes heavy toll on small traders during Ramadan
Gone are the days when the shopping-intensive month of Ramadan, preceding the annual Eid festival, used to be a season of profit-making for small...
Violence on Eid claims 28 lives
A spate of sectarian violence claimed at least 28 lives in different incidents in Lakki Marwat, Quetta and Kurram Agency on Eidul Fitr, turning...
Three dead in violence
A man gunned down his brother over a property dispute and a robber was killed by police on Monday night. According to Gadoon Industrial...
Karachi violence: SC adjourns hearing till September 5
The Supreme Court’s Karachi Registry has adjourned the hearing of the suo moto case regarding the security situation in Karachi till September 5, a...
Dialogue only long-term solution to Karachi violence: Gilani
Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani on Monday said a long-term solution to the Karachi problem lay in political dialogue, but terrorists and gangsters could...
PM doesn’t rule out ‘foreign hands’ in Karachi violence
Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani told reporters at State Guest House on Sunday that the involvement of “foreign hands” in the Karachi and Balochistan...
What’s really behind the violence in Karachi?
At the height of this month’s bloodletting in Karachi, when people were dying in the crossfire of warring gunmen, Nawab Khan crouched at home,...
Q&A: Karachi violence
Pakistan’s commercial capital Karachi has seen a recent surge in violence, much of it involving armed gangs linked to rival ethnic and political groups....
In Karachi, a call for calm amid deadly ethnic violence
Violence has never been a stranger to the people of Karachi, Pakistan’s commercial centre. However, as fighting has worsened in recent months, some citizens...
Karachi law and order problem has become a political issue: PM
Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani has said that the problem of law and order in Karachi has become a political issue and certain...
Cabinet endorses targeted operation in Karachi
Federal Cabinet has endorsed decision of the Sindh Government for targeted and across the board operation in nine areas of Karachi.
At a meeting held...
Surgical operation continues in Karachi: 83 miscreants arrested
Rangers and Police have recovered illegal weapons and drugs from 83 miscreants in Karachi on Wednesday while Interior Minister Rehman Malik has vowed that...
MQM protests against Karachi violence
Activists of Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) Islamabad chapter on Tuesday staged a protest demonstration against the bloodshed in Karachi.
The protesters gathered outside the National...
Unbridled Karachi violence: Altaf demands PM’s resignation
MQM leader Altaf Hussain has demanded Prime Minister Syed Yousaf Raza Gilani tender his resignation over his government’s ‘failure’ to stop violence in Karachi.
Reportedly,...
Chakra Goth violence suspects remanded until Sept 3
Five suspects allegedly involved in the attack on police personnel and other violent incidents in Chakra Goth were remanded on Monday into police custody...
