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Custodial death case
A judicial magistrate on Friday remanded four policemen in police custody in a custodial death case. Sub-Inspector Zameer Hussain, head constable Khair Mohammad and constables Sikandar Ali and Asadullah have been booked and arrested for killing a Muttahida Qaumi Movement worker, Muhammad Waseem, who was tortured to death on June 3 at the Aziz Bhittai […]
Four policemen held after MQM worker’s custodial death
KARACHI: Four policemen were arrested and two senior police officers suspended after a Muttahida Qaumi Movement worker died in the custody of the Aziz Bhatti police, officials said on Wednesday. “Four policemen of the Aziz Bhatti police station have been arrested as a post-mortem examination of the body conducted at the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre […]
MQM protests activist’s death in police custody
KARACHI: A Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) activist died in police custody on Wednesday, drawing a scathing response from the party which claimed that he was tortured to death and announced a two-day shutdown of Karachi to mourn the ‘extrajudicial killing’. On the chief minister’s orders, the SHO and other policemen of the Aziz Bhatti Police […]
Tortured to death: Political worker killed in police custody
KARACHI: A worker of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM), Waseem Dehlavi, was tortured to death by police personnel at the Aziz Bhatti police station on Wednesday. The post-mortem report confirmed that Waseem died due to cardiac failure resulting from a head injury. Meanwhile, a murder case has been registered against the personnel at their own police […]
SAHR Statement condemning the killing of civilians in Karachi
South Asians for Human Rights (SAHR), a democratic regional network of human rights defenders, strongly condemns the attack on members of the Ismaili sect, killing 47 and injuring a dozen more, by gunmen in Karachi, Pakistan. On 13 May, six armed men on three motorbikes had opened fire on a bus carrying a group of […]
