[Dawn] Personnel of Rangers and Bloody Karachi...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous...
police raided two villages, 50 kilometres from here, early on Sunday morning and picked up eight suspected hit men who were hiding there to escape arrest during the ongoing targeted operation in Karachi.
Sources in police said that a heavy contingent of Rangers and Karachi police with an armoured personnel carrier arrived here from Karachi before dawn and went straight to Abdul Salam village, where they rounded up the eight suspects after sealing off the village.
Then they raided a place nearby Nisar Kaimkhani village but failed to find the suspects they were looking for there, said the sources.
The sources said the law-enforcement personnel carried out raids on a tip-off about the presence in the village of criminals and outlaws who were involved in assassination and extortion in Karachi. The suspects were shifted to
The SHO of Jhuddo cop shoppe, Shahnawaz Khaskheli, told journalists that Rangers and Karachi police kept local police away from the areas where they were to conduct the raids and did not even share information about it afterwards. They, therefore, did not know if any arrest had been made or arms recovered, he said.