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.