The port city has witnessed 55 cases of lynching in the last three years, with experts attributing the trend to a lack of trust in police, courts and the justice system.
As traditional methods falter, Balochistan’s embrace of organic farming marks a pivotal shift towards sustainable agriculture in a land besieged by resource scarcity.
Soon after the attack, MQM chief Altaf Hussain asked leaders of his party to shut all election offices and announced a day of mourning across Sindh on Wednesday.
KARACHI, April 10: Two more policemen were gunned down in the city only a day after a station house officer had been killed in Saddar and a CID police official had come under a gun attack in the Gulbahar area, officials
KARACHI, April 3: At least four Rangers personnel were killed and three others injured when an improvised explosive device went off at the entrance of their offices in Korangi No 5 on Wednesday night.
KARACHI, March 28: Ballistic tests have showed that the gun seized from a suspected Taliban leader after he was killed in a shootout with police had been used in the murder of noted social activist Parween Rahman two weeks ago, it emerged on Thursday.
KARACHI, March 5: Some 48 hours after Sunday’s massive bombing at Abbas Town, police were finally allowed on Tuesday by area people to visit the scene of the bombing.
Violence accompanied by firing, arson attacks and exchange of heavy gunfire along the Superhighway after the burial of Abbas Town victims, left two men dead and 12 wounded.
KARACHI, Feb 5: A special police unit meant to function exclusively as a counter-terrorism strike force set up in 2009 has ended up providing ‘gunmen’ and escorts to anyone who enjoys political clout, it emerged on Tuesday.
KARACHI, Jan 30: At least three people were killed and a number of others injured as the Sohrab Goth area continued to witness acts of terrorism for the second day on Wednesday.
KARACHI, Jan 29: A policeman was killed and two others were wounded in a brazen attack launched by suspected militants on the Sohrab Goth police station on Tuesday evening, police said
KARACHI, Jan 24: Two blasts in a span of several minutes left four people, a DSP and an ASI among them, dead and 12 others, five of them policemen, injured in the Sherpao Colony of the city’s Landhi area on Thursday night.
KARACHI, Jan 13: Almost the entire city was paralysed on Sunday evening because of sit-ins and protests in many areas by people expressing solidarity with the Shia and Hazara communities in Quetta.
