LAHORE: Former Malir SSP Rao Anwar has ruled out the involvement of Pervez Musharraf in the assassination of Benazir Bhutto besides putting a question mark over the PPP’s role in the.
It used to be that if you went to Baldia, you were on Farooq Dada’s turf. The MQM muscleman may have been summarily dispatched to a higher plane in 1995 in a police encounter but his spirit lingered on in name. For years no other party’s candidate stood a chance in this part of Karachi. All that changed this April. Farooq Dada’s legacy finally ran out in the by-election held in Baldia Town for its NA-249 seat. The MQM came in sixth with 7,511 votes. With this, the MQM solidified a spectacular losing streak: it has lost the last four out of five by-elections in Karachi. LOST PS-114 (Mehmoodabad)WON PS-94 (Landhi)LOST PS-88 (Malir)LOST NA-243 (Gulshan-e-Iqbal) LOST NA-249 (Baldia) .
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On June 8 five years ago the MQM called a strike in Karachi, telling shops and bus operators to support their protest because the Rangers had attacked Farooq Sattarâs PIB Colony house. They bashed the gate with rifles and tried to kick it in. Rangers DG Bilal Akbar issued a clarification that no raid had taken place. The MQM ignored him.
This was the last time ever the party