By Azeem Samar in The News, Dec 30, 2023KARACHI: Despite intense high-level negotiations, the Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) on Friday failed to convince the Muttahida Qaumi Movement Pakistan on a seat adjustment formula to jointly contest the upcoming general elections in Karachi. Similarly, they also failed to agree on fielding a joint candidate from NA-242 in Karachi. The high-level PMLN delegation, led by its president and former prime minister Shehbaz Sharif, visited the MQM headquarters…
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Report in Dawn, December 6th, 2023KARACHI: A local leader of the outlawed Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat (ASWJ) was shot at and wounded in New Karachi on Tuesday evening, police and his party said. The police said that Bilal Murshid, 30, was targeted by armed assailants riding a motorbike in the Godhra area in Sector 11-G. He suffered five bullet wounds and was taken first to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital from where he was moved to…
report in The News, Nov 24, 2023The Sindh Police’s Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) claimed on Thursday to have arrested four Lashkar-e-Jhangvi militants in Karachi. According to the CTD spokesperson, the suspects, Amin, Shahnawaz, Maaz and Yasin, belonging to the banned sectarian terrorist outfit, were arrested during a raid conducted in the jurisdiction of the Site A police station. The spokesperson said that four pistols were found on the suspects, who were involved in the killings of…
By Habib Rahman Qooyash in TOLOnews Online, Nov 14, 2023 at 9:18 PMAuthorities of the Islamic Emirate said that they have begun negotiations with Pakistani officials to find solutions for the stranded transit goods of Afghan traders in Karachi port. Acting Minister of Industry and Commerce Noorudin Azizi, leading a delegation to Pakistan, met with the country’s caretaker foreign minister and discussed the safe conveyance of Afghan returnees’ goods, reads a statement of the Embassy…
report in The News, Nov 6, 2023If the Pakhtun community in Karachi is targeted for any reason, the Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P) will stand by them. MQM-P Convener Dr Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui said this on Saturday as he addressed a public meeting of the party in the Saeedabad area of Baldia Town. He said that only the two classes of oppressor and oppressed existed in the country today and the MQM-P stood against the former…
By Imtiaz Ali in Dawn, November 3rd, 2023KARACHI: The government machinery employed to identify illegal immigrants and facilitate their repatriation or deportation faced immense hardship in undertaking the process mainly due to a lack of verification devices and record of foreigners, sources said on Thursday. The sources said that the National Database and Registration Authority (Nadra) officials deputed at the transit centre, at Old Haji Camp, here did not have any record of illegal immigrants…
By Imtiaz Ali Published in Dawn, October 13th, 2023KARACHI: The Sindh government has decided to set up ‘housing facilities’ in Karachi and Sukkur to lodge illegal Afghan immigrants before their deportation, it emerged on Thursday. Sources told Dawn that a meeting, held here at the Sindh home department on Thursday, decided to form a high-level committee comprising officials of civil and military representatives to oversee repatriation of illegal Afghan refugees from Sindh. The sources said…
By Imtiaz Ali in Dawn, October 10th, 2023KARACHI: While a crackdown on illegal immigrants across the country is underway, police and allied agencies have so far picked up over 1,700 Afghan nationals for living in Karachi without any valid documents, it emerged on Monday. The information about the number of held persons was shared by caretaker Home Minister retired Brigadier Haris Nawaz, who also declared that all illegal immigrants living in Sindh would soon be…
report in The News online, Oct4, 2023At least 20 to 25 unknown assailants attacked the police personnel stationed outside the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s (PTI) Karachi headquarters, Insaf House, police said on Wednesday. The attackers tore the uniforms of the policemen and also attempted to seize weapons from them, the police told Geo News. They, according to the police, pelted stones at the officers and vandalised their patrol vehicles. When more personnel arrived at the scene, the…
report in The News, September 23, 2023A day after some people attacked a place of worship of the Ahmadiya community in Karachi’s Martin Road area, the Jamshed Quarters police registered a case on Friday. However, no arrest has been made so far. The police have registered the FIR under sections 147, 148, 149, 427, 504, 506-b, 295 of the Pakistan Penal Code and Section 7 of the Anti-Terrorism Act 1997 on the complaint of a…