KARACHI: A dumper struck a motorcycle at Rashid Minhas Road near Lucky One Mall Sunday (10th August, 2025) morning killing 22-year-old Mahnoor, her brother Ahmed Raza (14) and injured their 48-year-old father Shakir.
This resulted into widespread protest. A mob set fire to 7 dumpers within the Yousuf Plaza and F.B. Area PS limits. By means of the CCTV footage Police nabbed a dozen arsonists. It is pertinent to mention here that last year dumpers and water tankers killed 500 and injured 5000 karachiites on the Metropolis’ roads. Tragically, the slain girl Mahnoor was about to get married.
In the month of February, following burning of dumpers in the Metropolis, MQM-H’s Chief Afaq Ahmed had been nabbed from his house in DHA area here. Later, refusing physical remand, the court sent him to judicial custody.
Police claimed that Afaq Ahmed had incited his supporters to torch the dumpers and water browsers after a number of people got killed by reckless drivers of heavy vehicles. A case has been lodged at Korangi PS apropos the burning of heavy vehicles. MQM-H Chief had earlier given the Sindh government 48-hour ultimatum to ban heavy traffic in the Port City.
Meanwhile, Tankers Association staged a sit-in on National Highway to protest the recent spate of vehicle burning by unknown arsonists. Three cargo vehicles and a water tanker were set on fire in the Landhi, Korangi, Al-Karam, and Surjani Town areas of the Metropolis. It is pertinent to mention here that this year 100 people lost their lives on the roads.
Yet one other motorcyclist, identified as Gulshan Rasheed, had been crushed to death at Jail Chowrangi here on the night of 17th February. Karachiites, already angered due to hundreds of deaths annually on the roads of the Metropolis caused by reckless driving by dumper and water tanker drivers, torched 5 tankers, including the one involved in the Monday killing of a motorcyclist.
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