Security forces continue operations in S. Pakistan

Source :  KUNA

ISLAMABAD, March 20 (KUNA) -- Several suspects were arrested in an operation launched by paramilitary in Karachi city of southern Pakistan on Wednesday. According to the media reports paramilitary cordoned the Musharraf Colony area of the city and blocked all the entry and exit points. A house-to-house search operation has started and many suspects have been arrested so far. Meanwhile, security forces conducted an operation to arrest criminals and militants in many parts of Karachi city after a blast hit Abbas Colony blast and killed 48 people. A wave of violence struck the city as an aftermath of this operation. Security forces arrested over 100 people many of whom were found wanted criminals and militants. (end) sbk.nfm KUNA 200947 Mar 13NNNN

Bomb kills three in southern Pakistan

Source : Trend.Az

A bomb blast killed three people and injured five others in Pakistan's southern port city of Karachi early Friday, police said, dpa reported.

Up to 2 kilogrammes of explosives were detonated outside the office of a cable television operator in Landhi area of the country's biggest city and commercial centre, police officer Naeem Broka said.

There was no immediate indication that the business was targeted, as the owner "has denied receiving any threats," Broka said.

A police officer was among the dead, but it was not clear whether he was on duty at the time.

An employee of the office was about to check an unattended bag when the bomb went off, an unnamed witness was quoted as saying by television reports.

The explosion appeared to have been triggered by remote control, Broka said.

Karachi has a long history of ethnic, criminal and political violence, which has seen a spike in recent months.

Quetta bombing: Countrywide protests enter third day

Source : The Express Tribune

Families of the Quetta blast victims continued their sit-in for the third day in Hazara Town and Alamdar Road on Tuesday, refusing to bury their loved ones, Express News reported.

To express solidarity with the Shia Hazaras in Quetta, several protests and sits-in across the country also continued after the government failed to fulfill the demands of the Hazara community.

In Lahore, many roads were blocked, including the GT Road and motorway interchanges, causing inconvenience to transporters. A sit-in was also being held at Shahdara Chowk.

The Majlis-e-Wehdat-e-Muslameen (MWM) members continued their sit-in outside Governor House in Lahore, demanding those involved in the blast to be arrested.

Streets in Karachi also remained deserted while private schools were closed. Several areas, including Ancholi and Ayesha Manzil, were blocked as protesters burnt tyres. Shia Ulema Council and MWM in Karachi said that they would continue with their sits-in till their demands are met.

Awami National Party’s (ANP) Ameer Nawab and Bashir Jaan came to the sit-in in Karachi to express solidarity with the protesters.

In Patel Para protesters opened fire at the police after the funeral was held for one of the four people killed in last night’s firing in the area. The police resorted to aerial gunfire and shelling to disperse the protesters.

On February 16, a massive bomb ripped though a busy market in a Shia Hazara neighbourhood of Quetta, killing more than 80 people and injuring nearly 200.

Suicide attack on Pakistan base kills one

Source : Egypt Independent

suicide bomber killed at least one person when he rammed his vehicle into the gates of a military base in Pakistan's largest city on Thursday, police said, the latest in a series of audacious attacks on security forces.

Thirteen people were wounded in the explosion but the attacker was unable to penetrate into the headquarters of the Rangers paramilitary base in the port city of Karachi.

"It is a heavy blast near the Rangers office, with some casualties," said senior police official Javed Odho.

He told Pakistani television the bomber had used more than 100 kg of explosives in the attack. Karachi is Pakistan's financial hub and is home to 18 million people.

The bombing is the latest in a series of attacks on military bases in Pakistan, including a 16- hour assault on Pakistan's navy base in Karachi in 2011 that killed at least 10 people and an attack on the army headquarters in Rawalpindi in 2009.

Some of the assaults have prompted speculation the attackers had sympathizers inside the military who gave them information about the bases.

Nuclear-armed Pakistan, an uneasy US ally, is fighting its own homegrown Taliban as well as other insurgents who cross its porous border with neighboring Afghanistan.

Karachi is home to a number of sectarian groups and fighters allied to the Taliban insurgency and is also faced with an epidemic of violent crime.

Violence claims 10 lives in Karachi, Pakistan

Source : Xinhua English.news

Violence claims 10 lives in Karachi, Pakistan

English.news.cn 2012-10-15 23:08:18

ISLAMABAD, Oct. 15 (Xinhua) --At least 10 people were killed and several others injured in separate incidents of violence in Pakistan's southern port city of Karachi on Monday, police said.

Some unknown gunmen opened fire at a shop in Abul Hasan Isphahani Road of the city in the evening, killing four people right on the spot.

Spokesman for the religious group Ahl-e-Sunnat said all the four dead were their party workers.

Police termed the incident as a target killing.

In the afternoon, four people were injured when two unknown militants riding a motorbike hurled a cracker at a spare parts shop near Napier Police Station Karachi. The miscreants fled from the scene after the attack.

In North Nazimabad area, two people were killed by unknown gunmen. Meanwhile, a police constable was shot dead in Baldia Town area, bringing the police death toll to 67 during the current year in Karachi.

In the morning, a middle-aged man was gunned down by unknown armed assailants in North Karachi Sector 5. Police later said that the killed man was an activist of a political party.

Another man was killed in a similar incident of firing by unknown gunmen in Landhi area.

In Dalmia area, a suspected extortionist was killed during exchange of fire with police.

An additional number of police and rangers has been reportedly deployed in the city to maintain law and order, however, the police has failed to apprehend any of the killers yet.

The incidents of target killing notably increased in Karachi over the last two years, during the first nine months of the current year, an estimated 1,725 people including 227 political activists were murdered in targeted killings, Human Rights Commission of Pakistan said.