MQM announces 3-days mourning

KARACHI: Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM), Rabita Committee on Monday announced three-day peaceful mourning on the murder of Raza Haider, member of the Sindh Assembly (MPA) belonging to the MQM, who was gunned down in Nazimabad No2 Monday evening.

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Raza Haider’s funeral tomorrow

KARACHI: M QM leader and Member Sindh Assembly, Raza Haider’s funeral prayer will be held here at Jinnah Ground near MQM Headquarter on Tuesday, Geo News reported.

He will be laid to rest in Azizabad’s graveyard.

Raza Haider along with his guard was shot dead by unknown armed assailants at a local mosque in Nazimabad Monday evening.

MQM MPA Raza Haider assassinated in Karachi

KARACHI: Raza Haider, an MQM leader and member Sindh Assembly, and his guard were shot dead here at a mosque in Nazimabad on Monday, Geo News reported.

Unknown armed motorcyclists fired shots at Raza Haider as well as his guard when he was preparing to attend a funeral prayer at a mosque in Nazimabad Block No.2.

Raza Haider succumbed to his wounds died when he was being rushed to Abbasi Shaheed Hospital. The guard died later while receiving medical aid at the hospital.

The MQM leader was elected an MPA from PS-94 Karachi 6.

Separate incidents of firing were reported in different parts of the city shortly after the fatal attack on MQM leader while several vehicles were set on fire in different parts of the metropolis.

The incident sent a wave of fear and panic across the metropolis, as shopkeepers pulled down their shutters in view of any violent reaction by enraged people.

Interior Minister Rehman Malik condemned the incident, urging the people to remain calm.

He termed the targeted killings in Karachi as a ‘latest formula’ being used to destabilize the country.

Rehman Malik urged MQM leaders to wait for investigation and called upon the people to observe restraint.

He said he would soon hold a meeting with MQM leaders.

MQM leaders Babar Ghauri and Haider Abbas Rizvi expressed profound grief on the tragic incident.

“It would be difficult to put a cap on the chapter opened (today),” Babar Ghauri asserted.

Tendulkar gears up for 2011 WC

COLOMBO: Master blaster Sachin Tendulkar is looking forward to next year’s ICC cricket World Cup which will be staged in the Indian sub-continent after a span of one and a half decades.

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Over a dozen vehicles torched in Karachi

KARACHI: More than a dozen vehicles were set on fire by unknown miscreant after assassination of MQM member of the Sindh Assembly Raza Haider on Monday.

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Parliament has blocked road of adventurism: CJP

ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Monday adjourned hearing of the petitions challenging various clauses of the 18th Amendment till tomorrow.

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Ahmadinejad calls for debate with Obama

TEHRAN: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called on U.

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Islamabad-bound flight in emergency landing at Karachi

KARACHI: A PIA passenger plane on Monday made emergency landing at Jinnah International Airport Karachi due to a reported fault in its engine, ARY NEWS reports.

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MQM PMA shot dead in Karachi

KARACHI: Raza Haider, the MQM member of Sindh Assembly, was shot dead along with his gunman here in Nazim Abad area of the city, ARY NEWS reports on Monday.

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Journalists stage country-wide demos against PA resolution

ISLAMABAD: Journalists staged demonstrations across the country on Saturday in protest against passage of resolution against media in Punjab Assembly.

A protest demonstration was held on the call of Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) outside National Press Club in Islamabad. Office bearers of Rawalpindi and Islamabad unions of journalists besides those of press club and its members participated in the protest.

The participants chanted slogans against the Punjab government, demanding withdrawal of the resolution against media.

Karachi Union of Journalists also took out a rally and staged a sit-in before Sindh Assembly building.

In Hyderabad, journalists with black ribbons strapped to their arms led a rally from Press Club to Radio Pakistan. They also called for scrapping of the resolution passed against media in Punjab Assembly.

At a protest demonstration in Sukkur, some journalists representing Press Club, metaphorically, locked their mouths with padlocks while others voiced piercing slogans against Punjab Assembly members.

Black day was also observed by journalists in other parts of the country where protest rallies, demonstrations and sit-ins were staged by journalists and representatives of civil society against attempts to put unconstitutional curbs on media.

Similar protests and rallies were held in Nawabshah, Badin, Multan, Faisalabad, Bahawalpur, Dera Ghazi Khan, Jehlum, Chaman, Nasirabad and Bannu besides Muzaffarabad, Neelum valley and Mirpur, Azad Kashmir.

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