... army intervention to restore peace in violence-stricken Karachi. The PPP held its core committee meeting, jointly chaired by ... resist calls by its allies and opponents to hand over Karachi to the military. “Most of us are of the opinion that calling in the ...

Story - Hardeep Sidhu - 08/24/2011 - 13:04 - 0 comments - 1 attachment

... Minister Rehman Malik made to the cabinet over the Karachi violence. The gory details stunned the ministers. Karachi has witnessed a spurt of target killings in recent months. The ...

Story - Hardeep Sidhu - 09/09/2011 - 16:36 - 0 comments - 1 attachment

... have been arrested in Pakistan's southern port city of Karachi for involvement in target killings, extortion, land grabbing and ...

Story - Hardeep Sidhu - 08/27/2011 - 18:15 - 0 comments - 1 attachment

... Omar, the one-eyed leader of the Taliban, is living in Karachi with the help of Pakistan's intelligence service, The Washington Times ... told The Washington Times that Mullah Omar travelled to Karachi last month after the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. He ...

Story - Supreet Sharma - 01/04/2011 - 16:36 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Karachi, Aug 5 : Pakistan’s unit of the Taliban, the Tehreek-e-Taliban ... said that their next area for expanding its operations was Karachi, where they want to end “vulgarity”. “Karachi holds great significance for the Taliban movement, and the Taliban aim ...

Story - Sahil Nagpal - 12/30/2009 - 23:31 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Karachi, Oct 31: Pakistan’s Awami National Party Sindh President Shahi Syed ... no chance of “terrorists” or the Taliban taking over Karachi, the way they have done in Swat and the two Waziristan agencies. Addressing the media at the Karachi Press Club, Syed said that it would not be easy for the militants to ...

Story - Pankaj Mathur - 10/31/2009 - 19:32 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

... to flee from the border town of Quetta to the port city of Karachi, fearing that US drones might target him. Recently, one-eyed leader ... Afghan Taliban found refuge from potential US attacks in Karachi with the ISI assistance, the Washington Times has claimed quoting US ...

Story - Karan Jakhad - 11/20/2009 - 23:37 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Karachi, Dec 28 : At least 25 people were killed and scores of people wounded on Monday after a powerful blast ripped through the Karachi’s main Muharram procession at MA Jinnah Road. The blast struck ... The News reports. Fire broke out after the blast in Karachi, fanning thick smoke into the sky, and people were running in all ...

Story - Sarthak Gupta - 12/29/2009 - 00:06 - 0 comments - 2 attachments

... Officials have said that a grenade attack in a mosque in Karachi, Pakistan, Wednesday night killed five people and raised the death toll ... the middle of the third row." According to Dawn, Karachi has been rocked by gunfire, arson and other violence since Syed Raza ...

Story - Neha Malik - 08/05/2010 - 13:05 - 0 comments - 1 attachment

... division, a large number of terrorists have fled to Karachi and South Waziristan, according to military commanders and militants’ families. “I think these militants have fled to Karachi and Waziristan,” The Daily Times quoted Operation Commander Major ...

Story - Pankaj Mathur - 01/09/2010 - 20:21 - 0 comments - 0 attachments