PPP office in Karachi set on fire by unidentified assailants

Five to six assailants set the PPP office on fire

KARACHI: Unidentified armed motorcyclists attacked an office of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) in Baldia Town on Friday.

The office which came under attack is located in Mawach Goth, Baldia Town, within the limits of Saeedabad police station.

According to witnesses, armed men on at least five to six motorcycles came to the PPP office and resorted to indiscriminate fire, adding that they later entered the office and broken the infrastructure before setting it on fire. Nobody was hurt in the attack, however.

The firefighters later reached the site and extinguished fire before it completely burnt the office.

Witnesses said that the office was functional where preparations for the Saturday's rally at Bagh-e-Jinnah were going on.

Witnesses and police claimed that the members of Lyari gang war were behind the attack.

Parts of Lyari which considered the stronghold areas of the gangsters belonging to the Lyari gang war seemed not energetic to participate in the Bilawal Bhutto’s rally as one group of the Lyari gangsters – lead by Uzair Baloch has been against the PPP and stopping people to participate in the rally.

On the other hand, police officials said that the assailants managed to escape as the police immediately reached the site following the attack.

“Gang members of Uzair Baloch group were behind the incident,” said Saeedabad SHO Naveed Nasir while talking to The Express Tribune.

“They wanted to expose that they are against the PPP.”

The officer, however, said that the office was not functional from the last four years at least, adding that the case had been registered while further investigation was underway.