Affrontements à Karachi – 6 janvier 2012

Tear gas keeps rally away from red zone

dawn.com

KARACHI, Jan 6: The city’s financial and media hub on Friday remained disturbed for hours leaving a large number of people stranded in offices and numerous motorists stuck in gridlock as an attempt by the banned People’s Amn Committee to lead a rally into the ‘red zone’ was foiled by police who used tear gas and fired into air to disperse the protesters near Shaheen Complex.

The committee had earlier announced that its supporters would march up to Bilawal House to present a memorandum seeking arrest of those involved in the killing of Lyari residents and to protest against “certain quarters attempting to tarnish the image of Lyari”.

However, the police on Tuesday night had declared that no rally would be allowed to enter the red zone. The decision was made following a 10-hour sit-in at the Governor’s House by people protesting against the killing of a leader of Pasban-i-Jafria, and a threat by another group to do so on Friday. Read more…