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| Lyari operation stopped, claims Malik |
| 2012-05-05 |
| [Dawn] Federal Minister for Interior Rehman Malik Pak politician, current Interior Minister under the Gilani administration. Malik is a former Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) intelligence officer who rose to head the FIA during Benazir Bhutto's second tenure. He later joined the Pak Peoples Party and was chief security officer to Bhutto. Malik was tossed from his FIA job in 1998 after documenting the breath-taking corruption of the Sharif family. By unhappy coincidence Nawaz Sharif became PM at just that moment and Malik moved to London one step ahead of the button men. on Friday said that the police operation in Bloody Karachi's ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It may be the largest city in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... Lyari ...one of the eighteen constituent towns of the city of Karachi. It is the smallest town by area in the city but also the most densely populated. Lyari has few schools, substandard hospitals, a poor water system, limited infrastructure, and broken roads. It is a stronghold of ruling Pakistan Peoples Party. Ubiquitous gang activity and a thriving narcotics industry make Lyari one of the most disturbed places in Karachi, which is really saying a lot.... neighbourhood had been stopped, DawnNews reported. Speaking to media representatives, the minister said that police and Rangers were only surrounding the neighbourhood. "The forces have been ordered to withdraw," Malik said. Malik further said that "if Aziz Baloch had no trust in the police, then he could surrender to the Rangers". Responding to a question, Malik said "justice would be done to Aziz Baloch and his Eighth day Friday morning saw a tense Lyari as the operation against criminal elements in the area had entered its eighth day. Sporadic gunfire could be heard in the area as authorities reportedly finalised plans to use helicopters for the operation and deploy Rangers in the area. Gangsters killed Earlier on Thursday, the police claimed to have taken two alleged gangsters' bodies into custody after killing them in an exchange of fire in the area's Afshani Gali on Thursday morning. However, today is that tomorrow you were thinking about yesterday... the families of the two alleged gangsters, identified asShirazand Junaid, claimed that the two youths were innocent and vehemently denied that they were gangsters. |
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