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| PPP camps shut in Lyari after elders committee 'snubbed' at Bilawal House |
| 2014-10-19 |
| [DAWN] KARACHI: Pakistain Peoples Party's camps set up in different areas of Lyari ...one of the eighteen constituent towns of the city of Karachi. It is the smallest town by area in the city but also the most densely populated. Lyari has few schools, substandard hospitals, a poor water system, limited infrastructure, and broken roads. It is a stronghold of ruling Pakistan Peoples Party. Ubiquitous gang activity and a thriving narcotics industry make Lyari one of the most disturbed places in Karachi, which is really saying a lot.... were forcefully shut down on Friday after an elders committee, allegedly backed by the banned Peoples Amn Committee ... Peoples' Peace Committee is a group of brown turbans tied to the Pakn People's Party and based in Blood-soaked Karachi. It was founded by an infamous gangster, Rehman Dakait in 2008. It is accused of being involved in organized crime and gang wars. After Rehman departed this vale of tears in 2009, leadership of the group was taken over by Uzair Baloch, who is probably associated with the Tataglias or the Barzini clan. The Amn Committee was banned in Pakistain in 2011, which means precisely squat.... , was snubbed by PPP leaders in a meeting at Bilawal House a day earlier. In the morning, a statement of the PAC leader in hiding published in a local daily asked people not to attend the PPP public meeting near the Quaid-e-Azam mausoleum and graffiti appeared on walls across Lyari demanding 'withdrawal of red warrants for the leaders of Lyari'. The chairperson of the elders' committee (Buzurg committee), which according to sources work as a mouthpiece for the PAC, Syed Nooran Shah, said PAC leader Uzair Baloch called off Lyari's participation in the rally after the meeting between the activists and the officials at Bilawal House did not go as planned. |
| Posted by:Fred |