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Karachi
January 9, 2021
Infuriated by Prime Minister Imran Khanâs statement that equated the demand of Quetta protesters for his visit with âblackmailing the premierâ, Shia groups and the Hazara community expanded their protest sit-ins against the Machh tragedy to more locations in Karachi, blocking multiple major roads in the city that resulted in not only massive traffic jams but also clashes between protestors and commuters.
Eleven miners of the Shia Hazara community were brutally killed before dawn on Sunday while they were asleep near a remote coal mine in the mountainous area of Machh in Balochistan. The Islamic State (IS) claimed the responsibility for the attack.
Karachi: Maskan blast affectees demand compensation, new flats
They staged a protest on Monday SAMAA | Syed Khursheed Alam - Posted: Dec 14, 2020 | Last Updated: 4 months ago SAMAA | Syed Khursheed Alam Posted: Dec 14, 2020 | Last Updated: 4 months ago
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The people who lost their homes in the blast at a building near
Karachi’s Maskan Chowrangi staged a protest on Monday.
They said that the government promised to compensate them and build new flats for them but nothing has been given to them yet.
They claimed that they will protest outside Governor House if they aren’t provided compensation soon. Some protesters even said that a case should be registered against the Meezan Bank, which owns the ground and mezzanine floors of the building.
Woman, daughter die, husband, son critically injured in house fire
Karachi
December 14, 2020
A woman and her daughter lost their lives while her husband and son sustained serious burn injuries after a fire broke out at their house in the Landhi area on Sunday.
The tragic incident took place in the early hours of Sunday at a house located in the Zamanabad area within the limits of the Landhi police station. Neighbours came to know about the fire after they heard a minor explosion and noticed smoke rising from the house and called the fire brigade department and ambulances.
Firefighters extinguished the fire but they were unable to save the lives of the woman and her daughter, who had been burnt to death before they doused the flames. The firefighters were, however, able to rescue the woman’s husband and son alive with burn injuries. They were shifted to the burns ward of the Civil Hospital, Karachi, where doctors termed their conditions