KARACHI: While the Rangers-led Karachi operation has managed to restore a measure of peace to the city, a renewed wave of violence has swept the metropolis in the past two months. Some of the high-profile incidents are mentioned here:

Two people were killed and around 20 others belonging to the Shia Bohra community were wounded in a bomb blast that took place after Friday prayers outside Saleh Mosque near Pakistan Chowk on March 20.

The same evening two Rangers officials were killed in a suicide attack on a paramilitary force’s vehicle near Qalandria Chowk in North Karachi.

On April 16, Inspector Zahid Khawaja, who was Preedy SHO, was killed in an armed attack on his car in Defence.

Sabeen Mahmud, a human rights activist and social media campaigner, was shot dead and her mother sustained bullet wounds when they came under a gun attack on their way back home in their car minutes after organising an interactive discussion titled ‘Unsilencing Balochistan’ on April 24.

An assistant professor of Karachi University’s mass communication department, Dr Syed Waheed-ur-Rehman, was shot dead on April 29 in Federal B. Area while he was driving to the university.

On May 1, deputy superintendent of police Abdul Fatah Sangri along with his security guard and driver was shot dead in a gun attack.

Another DSP Zulfiqar Zaidi and his driver met the same fate on May 9 in Shah Faisal Colony.

Published in Dawn, May 14th, 2015

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