[DAWN] KARACHI: Five more Muttahida Qaumi Movement...English: United National Movement, generally known as MQM, is the 3rd largest political party and the largest secular political party in Pakistain with particular strength in Sindh. From 1992 to 1999, the MQM was the target of the Pak Army's Operation Cleanup leaving thousands of urdu speaking civilians dead...
offices were razed while a total of 196 ’sector and unit’ offices in the city were sealed in a renewed crackdown on the party after the arrest of three suspected hitmen belonging to the "MQM London secretariat" and as many women activists on Friday for allegedly attacking media houses.
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A source told Dawn that the record of MQM’s Khurshid Begum Memorial Secretariat in Azizabad -- which was sealed with party’s Nine-Zero headquarters on Monday night -- was also being looked into to find out whether the complex was constructed legally or it was also an encroachment on an amenity plot.
The MQM raised its voice against the demolition of its offices, but it ruled out any protest against the government action, explaining that it would follow a legal path. Also, the party announced on Friday that it would challenge the ’snatching of its mandate’ in Bloody Karachi
...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous...
’s West district elections.
Equipped with heavy machinery, local administration backed by a heavy contingent of law enforcement agencies demolished the MQM offices mainly in Karachi’s East district.
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