Ten injured in police charge on paramedics in Karachi

Policemen arrest protesters during demonstration of Paramedical Staff Association near Services Hospital in favor of their demands in Karachi on Thursday. – Photo by PPI

KARACHI: About 10 people were injured and some three dozen arrested, when police restored to baton charge to disperse a rally of Pakistan Paramedical Staff Association (PPSA) here on Thursday.

As per details, the rally was on its way to Chief Minister House when police intercepted it on M A Jinnah Road near Services Hospital.

Police used tear gas and baton charge. Protest leaders claimed that 10 protestors were injured and about 50 were arrested.

The PPSA and Sindh Doctors Tahreek (SDT) have announced boycotting hospitals in the province to condemn the police action on Friday.

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Chemical tank’s ceiling blows off causing panic in Karachi

Rangers’ officials stand outside a chemical factory in Keamari where a boiler was exploded on Tuesday. – Photo by White Star

KARACHI: Ceiling of a chemical tank of a private company was blown off near oil installations in Keamari area on Tuesday evening, causing panic in nearby areas, KPT Fire Station sources said.

A fire extinguishing officer said excessive gas in the chemical tank of Home Protect International Company (HPI) located on Plot No 45 near PSO terminal-C, generated the huge blast.

The resultant spill of chemical caused an inferno and spread chaos in the nearby areas, he said and added that fire tenders controlled the fire by using foam.

He said no one was injured in the incident.

Coalition parties support steps for peace in Karachi: Ishrat

Governor Sindh Dr Ishratul Ebad. — File Photo by APP

KARACHI: Sindh Governor Dr Ishratul Ebad Khan has said that the coalition parties fully support the measures of the law enforcement agencies for the restoration of peace in the metropolis.

A statement issued here on Tuesday said that he was talking to media representatives at the Governor House after a meeting of the PPP and the MQM leaders.

The governor pointed out that there was no ethnic, sectarian or religious conflict in the city or in the province.

He was of the view that there are a handful of miscreants who, after any incident, try to give it ethnic, sectarian or religious colour in order to serve their ulterior motives.

The governor said that in the recent incidents in the metropolis, activists belonging to Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM), Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) and Awami National Party (ANP) lost their lives.

Dr Ishrat said that coalition parties have decided to constitute a joint committee which should be active at the local level and after every incident will play its role and expose such conspirators.

He said that in today’s meeting it was decided that all the coalition parties would work together and that full action would be taken against the miscreants.

PPP leader Senator Faisal Raza Abidi said that there was no dispute between the PPP and the MQM. The killing of human beings in the city was tragic and that only an inhuman element can be involved in such incidents, he added.

He said that the law enforcement agencies should apprehend such elements and that media should also expose them.

MQM leader Dr Sagheer Ahmed said that miscreants are trying to create misunderstandings but the coalition parties would jointly fail such attempts and no body would be allowed to mar the situation in the city.

He said that the law enforcement agencies should take indiscriminate action against the miscreants.