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Ethnic Tension: Protestors block S. Highway

KARACHI: When reacting to Hyderabad incident (where 35-year-old Bilal Kaka was killed by the owners of an Afghan/Pushtoon eatery following a dispute over the food bill) Sindhi youth agitated, Afghan/Pushtoon protesters violently blocked the Super Highway.

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Afghan/Pushtoon protesters resorted to damage moving vehicles by hurling stones at them, burning tyres and torching two cars and a couple of motorcycles. Miscreants snatched official weapons from traffic police personnel and looted cash, mobiles and jewelry from the voyagers who got stuck in the embouteillage.

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According to details miscreants also abused women stuck in the traffic jam. Two people (Najamul Hasan and Nazir Allah Wadhaya) lost their lives. When Paramilitary Rangers and Police dispersed the mob after four hours, by means of aerial firing and teargas shelling, the embouteillage ended. Paramilitary Rangers and Police nabbed twelve people from Al-Asif Square.

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CM House Media Cell took to the Twitter to inform the citoyens about the Chief Minister’s directives to the Police: “No criminal element should dare to block any artery in city; No criminal element should dare to come onto the roads; Zero tolerance against damaging government and private property.”

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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.