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Abbas Town blasts: Mourners attacked
Karachi writhed in pain on Monday as scores of sobbing families buried their loved ones following Sunday’s carnage at Abbas Town which left around 48 dead and more than 200 injured. The pain of the...
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Seven dead as 'naamaloom afraad' shut Karachi down
KARACHI: At least seven people were killed in separate incidents of violence in Karachi, while businesses were forced to close across the city. A number of gunshot injuries were also reported. Panic...
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Inferno: Over 1,000 shops gutted in fire at New Sabzi Mandi
KARACHI: Over 1,000 shops, stalls, warehouses and restaurants were gutted as a fire broke out in New Sabzi Mandi on Super Highway on Wednesday afternoon. According to witnesses, the fire started at a...
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Paan shop targeted: Karachi bomb blast kills two
KARACHI: A Muttahida Qaumi Movement worker and his teenage son were killed and about a dozen people were wounded in a bomb explosion in the Landhi neighbourhood of Karachi on Monday. The powerful...
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Beyond the playground: Football rivalry at school gets out of hand
KARACHI: An argument between school football players on Saturday escalated into a full-blown fight by Wednesday with one of the students’ guard ending up in police custody. According to an...
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OPP Murder: Day after hit, police peg it to TTP man killed in shoot-out
KARACHI: It would be a miracle if the suspected Tehreek-e-Taliban (TTP) commander killed in a shoot-out on Thursday turned out to be the one who ordered the high-profile hit less than 24 hours...
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Targeted Attack: Blast in Karachi kills three
KARACHI: At least three people were killed and three others were wounded in a blast in Karachi’s Landhi neighbourhood early Friday morning. The blast took place in Khyber Market of Landhi’s old...
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With five bomb blasts in three months, Landhi sure has enemies
KARACHI: In the past three months, there have been five bomb blasts in Landhi and investigators can say only one thing for sure – the neighbourhood sure has enemies. Apart from this, the investigative...
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Tortured to death: Gangster Arshad Pappu’s body found in Lyari
KARACHI: Police recovered the bodies of gangster Arshad Pappu and his brother Arfat in the Lyari area of Karachi early Sunday morning. The police claimed that both the men were kidnapped and were...
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Forensic report: TTP suspect’s gun matches bullet shells in Perween attack
KARACHI: Ballistics have matched the weapon used to kill Orangi Pilot Project director Perween Rahman to that said to be found on a suspected Tehreek-i-Taliban commander’s aide in Manghopir. The...
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Where law enforcers fear to tread: The entry fee for these spots of Karachi...
KARACHI: Shortly after the armed forces launched the Kalosha II operation in South Waziristan back in 2004, the crocodiles lazing in the murky natural pond in Manghopir got new neighbours. Suddenly,...
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Occupation 101: Manghopir – how it became a no-go area
KARACHI: With the law enforcers combing the city’s no-go areas following the recent Supreme Court orders, The Express Tribune explores how Manghopir turned from a land of the crocodiles into a no-go...
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Karachi talibanisation: Four dead in blast outside Rangers complex
KARACHI: Taliban militants detonated a homemade bomb outside a paramilitary Rangers complex in the Korangi neighbourhood of the city Wednesday evening, killing at least four troops and wounding...
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Bomb blast in Karachi kills three, injures 30
KARACHI: A bomb exploded at a bus stop near the Peoples Chowrangi in Karachi, on Tuesday, killing at least three and injuring 30 others. Five of the injured were reported to be in critical condition....
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Pre-poll violence: Nine killed in Quetta, Karachi blasts
QUETTA / KARACHI.: A string of bomb blasts, including a suicide attack, killed at least nine people and injured dozens more in the provincial capitals of Sindh and Balochistan on Tuesday, heightening...
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Election violence: Five killed as Taliban target MQM in Karachi
KARACHI / DI KHAN / QUETTA / FAISALABAD: Barely 48 hours after a bomb attack outside a Muttahida Qaumi Movement camp office on Tuesday, another bomb blast close to an MQM election office in the...
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Another day of mourning: Reign of terror
KARACHI: In what was the third major attack on political parties in Karachi this week, at least 11 people were killed and 45 injured when a bomb exploded at the Awami National Party’s corner meeting...
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17-year-old boy killed allegedly by student’s guard
KARACHI: In what started off as peace talks to resolve an alleged love triangle, 17-year-old Hamza Ahmed, was shot dead allegedly by the guard of a student, Shoaib, on Saturday in Khayaban-e-Seher of...
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Reign of terror continues: Bloodied, but unbowed
KARACHI: A week marred by repeated attacks on election offices in Karachi ended on a bloody note as six people were killed and dozens injured in separate blasts targeting the MQM and PPP. The first...
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Blasts in Karachi trigger debate about calling in the army
KARACHI: The time slot between 9pm to 10pm has become every Karachi’ite’s worst nightmare over the last six days – a string of attacks on the Muttahida Qaumi Movement, Pakistan Peoples Party and...
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