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JI Mounts Citywide Karachi Sit-Ins After Red Zone Clash as Dozens Face Terror Charges

A magistrate remanded 30 workers after police filed an FIR under the Anti-Terrorism Act.

Overview

  • Police fired teargas and used baton charges to block a JI march toward the Sindh Assembly’s Red Zone after talks collapsed, leaving officers and protesters injured.
  • The protest was part of JI’s “Jeenay Do Karachi Ko” campaign pressing for fixes to crumbling roads, drainage failures and other municipal services.
  • An FIR registered at Aram Bagh police station named 34 individuals and 325 unidentified participants, citing rioting, attempted murder, damage to property, violation of Section 144 and anti-terror provisions.
  • A special judicial magistrate handed 30 detained workers to police on one-day physical remand under Section 7 of the Anti-Terrorism Act.
  • JI staged sit-ins at 10 major arteries across the city, while police maintained heavy security around the assembly and seized the party’s sound-system truck.