Muhammad Ashad

The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s internal dispute over ticket distribution has now hit the streets, with workers protesting outside the houses of party leaders in different cities. In Karachi, a large number of PTI workers, carrying placards and banners, reached the residence of senior party leader Arif Alvi, who is contesting from Karachi’s NA-247 constituency. The protest…

PTI’s founding member Fauzia Kasuri, who announced on Wednesday that she was quitting the party, joined the PSP on Thursday.  Fauzia Kasuri has joined the party led by former Karachi mayor Syed Mustafa Kamal. In her resignation letter, Kasuri had stated that she had become ‘disenchanted’ with the PTI and believed the party was no…

The rivalry between the MQM London and Lyari gangs has reached South Africa as the two members of pro-Altaf group have been killed in Johannesburg, sources told SAMAA. MQM-L workers, identified as Irfan and Majeed Manjila, were killed by Ustad Taju gang of Lyari in South Africa. Sources said Majeed was wanted in murder cases…

The post-mortem of the six-year-old found dead in the bushes Monday night confirmed rape and torture. The body of the minor was recovered last night near the Northern Bypass. The area falls in the jurisdiction of the Manghopir police. The child lived in Orangi Town’s Baloch Goth. She went missing on April 15. The police…

Another MQM MPA joined Mustafa Kamal’s Pak Sarzameen Party Wednesday. Sindh Assembly lawmaker Haji Anwar Raza decided to quit the MQM. “It’s the party of opportunists now,” said Raza. Raza belonged to the Bahadurabad group of the MQM. After the two female MPAs who joined PSP recently, he is the third MQM lawmaker from the…

KARACHI: Three more MQM-P lawmakers jumped ship to join PSP. In the past 10 days, four MPAs and an equal number of MNAs have left MQM-P to join the PSP as general elections draw nearer.  MNA Mehboob Alam, MPAs Kamran Farooq and Saifuddin Khaliq announced their decision to join PSP in a press conference with Mustafa…

KARACHI: At least two people were killed and eight sustained critical injuries after a powerful explosion in a tank at Kemari oilfield in Karachi. The giant tank was filled with sugar syrup when the explosion occurred. Rescue teams and other officials reached the scene and shifted injured to a hospital. Some of the injured were…