Celebrations turned into tragedy as two people, including a 10-year-old girl, were killed and 16 others injured in various incidents on the night before the Independence Day. The enthusiasm surrounding the Independence Day proved imprudent when people celebrated not only with unsafe fireworks but also gunfire, though the government had imposed restrictions on both. Incidents of celebratory gunfire occurred in various areas of Karachi, including Lyari, Liaquatabad, Paposh Nagar, Saddar, Burns Road, Malir, Federal B Area, Super Highway, Baldia Town, Tariq Road, Korangi, Clifton and New Karachi. Related: Sindh bans pillion riding on Independence Day At least one man was kille.
One of Karachi’s most famous forensic medicine experts Dr Farhat Mirza perished in a fire that broke out in his house in Mohammad Ali Housing Society in the middle of Wednesday night a death that could have been averted had a fire tender reached in time. Investigations by SAMAA Digital reveal that a fire tender could not be dispatched from the closest fire station because it was shut. Its sole person on duty, a driver, had gone home.Along with Prof. Farhat Mirza, a retired judge and a retired higher secondary school teacher also died in the blaze. The house, No 19-D in Sector D of MAHS, is located off Karachi main artery, Sharah-e Faisal. Records from the Central Fire Brigade office te.
The Karachi police have arrested a man over suspicion that he murdered the son of Jamaat-e-Islami s Ishaq Khan. Khan and his brother were injured, while his son was killed after an unidentified man opened fire at men near a hardware store in Maghopir s Gulzarabad on July 26. The police had registered a case and launched an investigation. The prime suspect, identified as Mujahid, was arrested during a raid on Wednesday. West SSP Suhai Aziz shared that the suspect has confessed to the murder and the police have even recovered the murder weapon from him. He claimed that his two accomplices, Siraj and Maqsood, had helped them with the recee. The two suspects are still on the run and the .