KARACHI: A strike called by the Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) is underway followed by the murder of its party leader and former Liaquatabad Town nazim, Express News reported Wednesday.
Former Liaquatabad Town Nazim Dr Pervez Mehmood was shot dead along with a friend late on Monday night near the KDA Chowrangi in Nazimabad.
Aerial firing left the situation tense in some parts of Karachi.
Unknown men threw a hand grenade in PIB Colony which injured three people.
Two buses and two trucks were set ablaze in Orangi Town and Quaidabad.
Angered protesters burnt tyres on the National Highway and put obstacles on the road which made it difficult for the traffic to pass. However, later, the police cleared the road.
Traffic on the roads remained thin and so did the public transport due to which people going to their offices faced difficulties.
Unknown men opened fire in Safoora Goth and Gulistan-e-Jauhar and forced the shopkeepers to close down their shops.
Five dead in Karachi violence incidents
Five people were killed while three remained injured in different incidents of violence and firing in Karachi.
Four people were gunned down by unknown men in areas including Malir, Lyari, Orangi Town and Agra Taj Colony.
A strangled body was recovered from the Nabi Baksh area.
Three people were injured in a firing incident near Metroville Cinema in Orangi Town.
Interior Minister Rehman Malik had earlier told the National Assembly in a briefing that 1,363 people have lost their lives at the hands of target killers during the past five years.
Giving a breakdown of the figure, Malik said that 104 people had been killed in year 2008, 160 in 2009, 373 in 2010, 478 in 2011 and 248 so far in 2012.
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After the deadly love-hate relationship between PPP-MQM-ANP which has destroyed the peace of Karachi, it's great to see an alternate being developed for the Karachiites in the form of the Jamaat e Islami! JI does not even command enough control to be able to forcefully shut down businesses (as done by MQM, PPP and ANP in their ethnic strongholds) because of the fact that JI does not have a Pathan or Muhajir or Sindhi/Baloch majority area to support them. Still the way their strike has been supported by the masses shows a lot about the changing political landscape of Karachi! Beware the brutal lords of Karachi... Next elections won't be as easy!
People of karachi, showed their anger against the politics of Bhattaa, extortion , target killing by making the strike successful.
Jamaat-e-Islami? Who is that? Oh yes, I remember them. Too bad the MQM wiped them off the political map of Karachi.
JI is the real munafiq party which only do protest to get votes
@Karachities totally agreed
Keep on destroying public and private property. Now you are your way to the stone age and the world is least borthered. Keep on the good work.
@karachiites: peaceful strike? have you seen the way they have been terrorising the entire city to shut down their businesses? do they not realise how the poor man who runs a small kiosk all over the city will earn for the day?
this is really sad. and its sad how everybody is so immune to it. @HA: i agree. if you really want to protest, please find some other way. rather than causing havoc over the city.
The recent disruption of peace in the city is an attempt by a fascist party to divert the attention from the blasphemous film on the youtube. People of Karachi still remember the KFC incident at Nipa on the day of funeral of Aslam Mujahid JI...!!!
Just read someones FB status about shops being forcibly closed around Rabi center and Dolmen Mall on Tariq Road.
@Karachities Peace and JI.. ha! good joke
How will destroying private and public property and disrupting traffic help?
so clearly mr malik is saying that since they have been in power things in karachi have gone way worse then it was before them?? i really dont know how they are able to sleep at night knowing what they are doing to my beloved country. hope and prayer. i miss my city so very much
A party is destroying the peaceful strike by JI.