Over 300 police personnel cordoned off the areas of Purana Golimar and Shahnawaz Chowk in Pak Colony. The operation lasted for more than one and a half hour.
However, the operation could not make any major achievements as only two licensed pistols could be seized.
Two close relatives of former members of the Balochistan Assembly were also taken into custody.
Meanwhile, two people were killed in the Sachal area of Karachi in an incident of target killing.
Reports say that two unidentified men opened fire at the office of a political party in Bilal Shah Norani area of Sachal Town.
One political worker, Jamal Khan, died on the spot while the other, Zaman Khan, passed away in the hospital from gunshot wounds. Another man identified as Haider was also injured in the incident.
Interior Minister Rehman Malik ordered a joint investigation into the incident.
Six more people were injured in firing incidents in Kharadar, Nazimabad, Soldier Bazar, Landhi and Lee Market.
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@ PAkistani first and Maulana Diesel, the statistics shows that in the people killed around 20 % of the are pukhtuns, so stop promoting the propaganda that there's ethnic cleansing going on in Karachi. Also from the killings of Pakhtuns and this propaganda only ANPs votebank is increasing, so you can judge by the rule of thumb who is behind it.
is this what CIA asked you guys to do before putting forth your begging bowl???????? now even CIA knows that the only way to make you guys bend is to stop giving money!! Then you will bend over, run and catch your own citizens ( terrorists) and hand them to CIA
@Salman Orangiwala: Aren't the Pukhtuns Pakistani? They have every right to go anywhere they want. MQM or someone sitting in London has no right to stop people from coming in my city.
And this is coming from a 'Urdu Speaker' living in Karachi.
@Maulana why dont you confine them where they come from . ? What your reprsentatives have been doing for the bettrment for you for the last 60 yrs ? Why dya have to cross all the channels and faultlines to land in Karachi .? Ever thought of that ?
Hundreds people died in target killing, our Federal/Civil/Human Rights and religious Organization was quite silence. Now they remembered that we should take stern action against those elements who involved in such terrorist activites. There are two life: (i) world (ii) judgement day, how we and our leader face to our Allah. How they can say we have done justice among the people. They should realize that how Presidents and Prime Minister expired but no one can talked about them unless their faults and acts which they were taken during that time.
It seems that Pukhtuns are continuously being targeted and killed in Karachi. The ethnic cleansing continues.