Posts Tagged ‘Karachi’

Karachi shuts down, mourns attack on Shia procession Tuesday, 29 Dec, 2009 KARACHI: Karachi shut down Tuesday to mourn at least 33 people killed in a suicide bombing at a Shia procession on their holiest day. Monday's blast sparked riots in Pakistan's largest city where angry (more...)

The killing spree in Pakistan is on and thriving. This time target was Ashura procession in Karachi. O Jihadi, kill … kill more..never leave a living soul in (more...)

By Abdul Nishapuri Pakistani officials say a suicide bomber has struck a Muslim religious procession in the port of Karachi, killing at least 45 people. Officials say the bomber blew himself up Monday in a procession of minority Shi'ites observing the holy festival of Ashura in Pakistan's commercial capital. Who is responsible for the [...]

KARACHI: Following weeks of sharp criticism, President Asif Ali Zardari assured PPP supporters that his government would complete its five year term in a televised address, DawnNews reported. In an address to PPP supporters in Karachi via video link from the Presidency, the President lashed out at critics for painting (more...)

کھارادر سے کھجی گراؤنڈ تکحسن مجتبٰیبی بی سی اردو ڈاٹ کام، نیو یارکسنہ بانوے میں کراچی میں امن و امان کی صورتحال ناگفتہ بہ تھی۔مئی انیس سو بانوے میں حیدرآباد کے قریب گائوں ٹنڈو بہاول میں فوجی [...]

Monday, August 31, 2009By By our correspondentKarachiThe Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Sindh (PTI) has demanded that a treason case be registered against former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif for killing 15,000 people in Karachi in a military operation launched in 1992 in Sindh, especially in Karachi.The demand was made by the provincial PTI leader Ashraf [...]

PML-N’s losing graceISI money case to reopen old wounds, hurt manySituationerSaturday, August 29, 2009By Amir MirLAHORE: Former chief justice of Pakistan Saeeduzzaman Siddiqui’s statement that the Inter Services Intelligence dished out millions of rupees to different politicians during President Ghulam Ishaq Khan’s regime to manipulate the [...]

A recent flurry of interviews to TV channels by ex-ISI operative and ex-IB chief Brigadier (Retd) Imtiaz Ahmad Billa — at his urging — has caused discomfort in a lot of quarters. Brig Billa’s “disclosures” are flying in all directions, indicating that the old spy has once again not employed his brains while strategising his public [...]

Co-edu institutions in city receiving threats from Taliban? KARACHI: Panic has spread in the city’s co-education institutions after receiving threats, believed to be from the Taliban, in which they have been warned to close down or face the consequences, Daily Times learnt on Monday. Various educational institutions including schools, [...]

This year the festival of the “third Eid” of Islam was observed with unprecedented exuberance. Eid Miladun Nabi, the Birthday of the Holy Prophet PBUH, has always been the most important of the three Eids, but in this season of Taliban violence, it appears that the people are using it to send a message to the extremists destroying Pakistan’s [...]

MQM rally to condemn damaging of BB’s memorial PDF Print E-mail KARACHI, March 1 (APP): The Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) held a huge rally in downtown Karachi on Sunday to protest against the damaging of the memorial at the site of the assassination of Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto. The (more...)

dehshatgard "Quaid" ka jo ghaddar hay, kis cheez ka haqdar hay? The countdown begins....? How can the Pakistani nation forgive the killers of 12 May 2007? KARACHI: The Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) has expelled Salim Shehzad from the party’s Rabita Committee here on Friday. The decision has been taken at an emergency meeting of the [...]

The Gujaratis of PakistanSunday, February 08, 2009Aakar PatelPakistan has fewer Gujaratis than it should, and that is to its detriment. Even so, the Gujaratis of Pakistan are its best citizens. None of the people on the list that follows are big in the field of literature, since Gujaratis are not particularly interested in that. This is because [...]

The hell that is hateSaturday, December 06, 2008Samina Wahid PerozaniIt all started when the driver and the conductor of a bus were beaten up by an angry mob in Moosa Colony. Soon enough, news of this incident spread to other parts of Karachi giving rise to an ethnic strife. The spate of violence played out for a good three days – educational [...]

Taliban present in Karachi: TTPKARACHI: The Taliban are present in Karachi and have links with the Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, Sipah-e-Sahaba and other banned religious organisations, but they have no intention of carrying out attacks in the provincial capital if not provoked by a political party or the government, Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) [...]

Geo and ARY news blocked in Karachi and other urban parts of Sindh. Time for MQM as well as hostile media acnhors to pause and reflect... Let us listen to Khusnood Ali Khan as well as Salman Taseer:PM orders probe into blocking of TV channels (The Post, 18 Nov 2008)AgenciesISLAMABAD: Condemning all forms of restrictions on private television [...]

Mustafa Kamal second best mayor in the worldKARACHI, Nov 9: The Foreign Policy magazine of the United States has chosen Karachi Nazim Syed Mustafa Kamal as the second among the best three mayors in the world for 2008.Berlin Mayor Klaus Wowereit and Chongqing Mayor Wang Hongju were the other two “mayors of the moment”, a press release issued by [...]

Courage & politicsTuesday, November 11, 2008Masood Sharif Khan KhattakI recently read an article justifying Asfandyar Wali's departure from Pakistan to the UK written by Gulmina Bilal of the ANP, dated Oct 27. That prompted me to write this piece to highlight Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto's courage. On Ms Bilal's article I shall only say that if [...]

FROM Karachi to Swat, the Taliban are active. Shame on you Imran Khan, Hamid Gul, Kashif Abbasi, Mushtaq Minhas. Are you still in a state of denial? From Karachi to SwatFROM Karachi to Swat, the Taliban are active. The ‘executions’ in what once was a tourist paradise and a police informer’s abduction in the port city show both, their [...]

New Karsaz FIRIT is intriguing that a new First Information Report about the bomb attack on Benazir Bhutto’s procession should have been registered a full one year after the Oct 18 crime that killed some 140 innocent people in Karachi. Those named in the new FIR are two former spy chiefs — former ISI boss Gen (retd) Hameed Gul and former [...]

18 October 2007: A day when the enemies of Pakistan, the supporters of Taliban, Al-Qaeda, Sipah-e-Sahaba, when the remnants of General Zia-ul-Haq in the Pakistani society, the Hamid Guls and Aslam Begs and other beast like creatures conspired to attack and kill Benazir Bhutto. The Karsaz blast resulted in deaths of more than 150 supporters of the [...]

The Taliban war in KarachiAs student wings of political parties kill each other in Quaidabad, and Nazimabad, Karachi gradually becomes the theatre of a war between religious and secularist forces; the leader of Mutahidda Qaumi Movement (MQM), Mr Altaf Hussain, claimed on Sunday that “more than 400,000 Afghan nationals had arrived in the city, [...]

A job well doneFRIDAY’S police action against suspected terrorists in a Karachi locality comes as a reality byte that home-grown sectarian and extremist outfits are but extensions of global terrorist networks like Al Qaeda. There is no ambiguity now that the terror machine that has unleashed itself against targeted individuals and the public [...]

Protégée terrorists attack KarachiThree would-be suicide bombers were killed along with a handcuffed hostage when one of the bombers blew himself up following a police raid on a house in Karachi’s Baldia Town on Friday. They were members of Lashkar-e Jhangvi. The operation came after the police arrested the mastermind terrorist Rahimullah. He [...]