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'Hitmen' allegedly involved in attacks on MQM-P, PSP arrested: Sindh Rangers
2019-02-26
[DAWN] The Pakistain Rangers Sindh on Monday announced that they have nabbed
Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages!
eight suspected 'hitmen' allegedly involved in attacks on 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...
-Pakistain (MQM-P) and Pak Sarzameen Party's (PSP) workers and leaders.

On Dec 9, 2018, an IED blast had taken place at the Mehfil-e-Milad organised by MQM-P in Gulistan-e-Jauhar, injuring seven persons.

Shortly after, on Dec 23, multiple button men had resorted to indiscriminate firing on PSP's office in Gulbahar in which two workers had died while two others were maimed. Meanwhile,
...back at the mall, Clarissa spent the day shopping for new underwear. Tonight was going to be a special occasion...
on Feb 11, several suspects had attacked an office of a union council belonging to MQM-P in New 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...
in which an activist named Shakeel Ansari had lost his life and another was hurt.

Colonel Faisal Awan, during a presser at the Rangers headquarters in Karachi, said that the arrested individuals tie in with the aforesaid attacks. He said that the suspects were being operated by a South Africa-based individual named Mohammed Saleem Baloch alias Belgium, under the direct supervision of MQM founder the increasingly rotundAltaf Hussain
...The head of MQM in Pakistain, who has lived in London and hasn't laid eyes on Pakistain since Caesar made corporal. Judging from the size of him, he may be a Hutt...
The paramilitary force official said that the "team of hitmen" was also being aided by "some women" in the city.

Colonel Awan said that the team was formed in 2018 to target opponents of MQM-London, especially PSP and MQM-P workers and leaders, in an attempt to "sabotage peace and undermine growing political, economic and commercial activities in the city," which he said had become possible after the Rangers-led operation in 2013.

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