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Rangers executed MQM worker Shahid Ghulam in a staged encounter
13 Sep 2015
Views: 1901
Shahid Ghulam was arrested on 6th August 2015
Shahid Ghulam, who was killed extrajudicially by Rangers in a staged encounter on Thursday, was a worker of Unit 75 of Korangi Sector. He was arrested on 6th August 2015 while he was busy in making arrangements for taking families of MQM martyrs to attend a programme at Nine Zero.
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NewsLine: The MQM’s Boomerang
12 Sep 2015
Views: 2125
On August 12, amid accusations of alleged foreign links, speculation about frictions developing within the party, and questions about the political future of Altaf Hussain, the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) decided to employ a new stratagem: its legislators resigned from both the National and Sindh Assemblies. The move engendered some back and forth negotiations, with the JUI’s Maulana Fazlur Rehman personally flying to Karachi to ‘convince’ the MQM to reconsider, as the Speaker of the House agreed to accept the resignations if he was convinced there was no duress on the MQM to call it quits.
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The News: Encounter deaths rise, target killings fall
12 Sep 2015
Views: 2275
As the Muttahida Qaumi Movement accused Rangers on Friday of murdering its four activists in custody, recent statistics compiled by the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan also show that the killing of people at the hands of law enforcement agencies has increased during the eight months of the ongoing year.
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Reuters: Pakistani party accuses paramilitary force of extrajudicial killings
11 Sep 2015
Views: 2225
A Pakistani party that has long dominated politics in the commercial hub of Karachi accused the powerful paramilitary Rangers on Friday of illegally murdering four party workers on Thursday.
Karachi, a metropolis of 20 million that hosts the stock exchange and central bank, is beset by armed violence, and many of its sprawling slums are no-go areas for outsiders.
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