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Hundreds of protesters enter Bahria Town, resort to burning and looting

KARACHI: A large number of activists of Sindh’s nationalist parties, who had been staging a sit-in outside the Bahria Town located on Super High Way here, attacked the gated housing community and set several shops and vehicles on fire on Sunday 6th of June. 

Barhia Town sit inParticipants of the sit-in were protesting their forceful eviction from their ancestral terrain in Malir district. Though the Bahria Town administration had barricaded the entrance of the housing society with containers, the protesters managed to remove the containers. It has also been insinuated that the attackers looted cash from a couple of ATMs. Businesses burnt a car showroom harboring brand new cars, a fast food outlet etc.

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M M Alam

M. M. Alam is a Pakistan-based working journalist since 1981. Karachi University faculty gold medalist Alam began his career four decades ago by writing for Dawn, Pakistan’s highest circulating English daily. He has worked for region’s leading publications, global aviation periodicals including Rotors (of USA) and vetted New York Times as permanent employee of daily Express Tribune. Alam regularly covers international aviation and defense-related events including Salon Du Bourget (France), Farnborough (United Kingdom), Dubai (UAE). Alam has reported thousands of events and interviewed hundreds of people in Pakistan, UAE, EU, UK and USA. Being Francophone Alam also coordinates with a number of French publications.