While billions of rupees from the taxpayer’s pocket have been poured into the Green Line project, the people of Karachi have yet to gain any benefits from this scheme. The base of the escalator is being used as a garbage dump at the Shadman Town station while (right) a portion of the grill has broken near Nagan Chowrangi. Fahim Siddiqi/White Star
KARACHI: As the federal government had given another deadline for opening of the Green Line bus rapid transit system (BRTS) project in July-August, any relief in the transport sector seems a distant dream for Karachiites who have been waiting for the project’s completion ever since its groundbreaking was performed by former prime minister Nawaz Sharif on Feb 16, 2016.
Accused Saad Aziz alias Tin Tin and Tahir Hussain Minhas alias Saeen were found guilty of murdering Captain Ahmed of the PN and wounding his foreign wife in an armed attack in Karachi. Reuters/File
KARACHI: An antiterrorism court has sentenced two men inspired by the militant Islamic State group to life imprisonment in a case pertaining to the killing of a Pakistan Navy officer in 2013.
Accused Saad Aziz alias Tin Tin and Tahir Hussain Minhas alias Saeen were found guilty of murdering Captain Ahmed of the PN and wounding his foreign wife in an armed attack in Karachi.
The judge of the ATC-VIII pronounced the verdict reserved after recording evidence and final arguments from both sides.
Karachi
January 9, 2021
Infuriated by Prime Minister Imran Khanâs statement that equated the demand of Quetta protesters for his visit with âblackmailing the premierâ, Shia groups and the Hazara community expanded their protest sit-ins against the Machh tragedy to more locations in Karachi, blocking multiple major roads in the city that resulted in not only massive traffic jams but also clashes between protestors and commuters.
Eleven miners of the Shia Hazara community were brutally killed before dawn on Sunday while they were asleep near a remote coal mine in the mountainous area of Machh in Balochistan. The Islamic State (IS) claimed the responsibility for the attack.
Protestors stage a sit-in at Nazimabad Chowrangi on Wednesday. Shakil Adil/White Star
KARACHI: While the members of Balochistan’s Shia Hazara community refused to bury the bodies of the miners killed in a brutal attack in Mach demanding visit of Prime Minister Imran Khan, sit-ins in Karachi continued for the fourth consecutive day and organisers further expanded them to other parts of the city. The demonstrators called for immediate action from the federal and provincial governments.
The protests also badly crippled city life, hitting the traffic movement and forcing rescheduling of a few flights. Rail and air traffic was seriously affected owing to the sit-ins being staged at different places in the city to express solidarity with the Mach victims. The sit-ins were expanded to a number of neighbourhoods including Sharea Faisal, Malir 15 and Teen Talwar, in the city, blocking traffic on main roads. The main sit-in was being held at Numaish.
Protestors stage a sit-in at Nazimabad Chowrangi on Wednesday. Shakil Adil/White Star
KARACHI: While the members of Balochistan’s Shia Hazara community refused to bury the bodies of the miners killed in a brutal attack in Mach demanding visit of Prime Minister Imran Khan, sit-ins in Karachi continued for the fourth consecutive day and organisers further expanded them to other parts of the city. The demonstrators called for immediate action from the federal and provincial governments.
The protests also badly crippled city life, hitting the traffic movement and forcing rescheduling of a few flights. Rail and air traffic was seriously affected owing to the sit-ins being staged at different places in the city to express solidarity with the Mach victims. The sit-ins were expanded to a number of neighbourhoods including Sharea Faisal, Malir 15 and Teen Talwar, in the city, blocking traffic on main roads. The main sit-in was being held at Numaish.