One killed in Karachi hand grenade attack on January 19, 2018KARACHI: One person was killed and six others were wounded as unidentified armed men hurled a hand grenade in a cloth market in Kharadar area of Karachi on Thursday. According to the initial investigation, miscreants from Wasiullah Lakho group of Lyari gang war are behind the incident, who have been involved in demanding extortion from […]
TTP claims responsibility for attack on SSP Rao Anwar on January 18, 2018KARACHI: Banned militant outfit – Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has claimed the responsibility for the suspected suicide attack on the District Malir police chief SSP Rao Anwar in Malir Cantt area. SSP Anwar escaped a suspected suicide attack late on Tuesday night when his convoy came under attacked by assailants as he was heading towards his […]
Hassan Zafar Arif was not murdered, claim police on January 17, 2018KARACHI: Police investigators probing a mysterious death of a senior leader of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement-London Professor Hassan Zafar Arif while ruling out a possibility of a murder remained unable to find out any criminal element behind his mysterious death. “It was trying to turn a natural death of the Professor Arif a murder on […]
Two more ACLC men surrender in Karachi youth killing case on January 16, 2018KARACHI: Two more Anti-Car Lifting Cell (ACLC) men Monday surrendered to police for their alleged involvement in the murder of Intizar Ahmed in Defence Housing Authority a couple of days ago. Police have also found a girl who was accompanied by a victim inside a car at the time of the incident but the police […]
Six ACLC men arrested for killing youth on January 15, 2018KARACHI: At least six personnel of the Anti-Car Lifting Cell (ACLC), were arrested over murder charges of a youth in Defence Housing Authority (DHA). Late on Saturday evening in Karachi’s posh locality – DHA, a twenty-one-year-old Intizar Ahmed, a resident of the Khayaban-e-Badban, was shot dead under mysterious circumstances near Khayaban-e-Ittehad. Intizar’s killing was termed […]
MQM-London deputy convener found dead in his car in Karachi on January 15, 2018KARACHI: Muttahida Qaumi Movement’s (MQM) London Deputy Convener Hasan Zafar Arif was found dead on Sunday morning in his car. Family and the friends claimed that Prof Hassan Zafar Arif, 72, son of Maqbool Hassan, had gone missing late on Saturday evening. The MQM-London leader was found dead from inside his car (ANC-016) from Ilyas […]
Guard rescued from mob released as family ‘refuses to register case’ on January 14, 2018KARACHI: Police have registered cases against a senior leader of the Pakistan-e-Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), Haleem Adil Sheikh, and several others for vandalising a private school and obstructing staff on duty in Ibrahim Hyderi area. Two separate cases were registered at the Ibrahim Hyderi police station, one with the police themselves as complainants and other on the […]
Four suspected members of banned outfits killed in ‘encounter’ on January 14, 2018KARACHI: As many as four suspected terrorists were gunned down in what the police said was a shootout in Maliron Friday night. The encounter took place at Usman Khaskheli Goth in Malir when the police conducted a raid on the information of intelligence agencies about the presence of some militants affiliated with the banned Lashkar-e-Jhangvi […]
Cop gunned down in an apparent case of targeted killing on January 13, 2018KARACHI: A cop was shot dead in an act of targeted killing in District Central of Karachi on Friday. Police officials said that armed motorcyclist targeted the victim when he was on his way to the police station. The incident took place near the Landikotal Chowrangi within the limits of Gulberg police station. Deceased was […]
Teenage Baloch shot dead in DHA on January 11, 2018KARACHI: A young man hailing from Balochistan was shot dead in an act of target killing in Defence Housing Authority on Tuesday. The victim’s uncle, however, remained safe in the attack. Police officials said that the incident occurred apparently over personal enmity. A 19-year-old Imran Buksh who hailed from Balochistan was shot dead when armed […]