{"id":52443,"date":"2024-10-13T22:40:24","date_gmt":"2024-10-13T17:40:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=52443"},"modified":"2024-10-13T22:40:24","modified_gmt":"2024-10-13T17:40:24","slug":"over-100-arrested-in-karachi-police-protester-clash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/over-100-arrested-in-karachi-police-protester-clash\/","title":{"rendered":"Over 100 arrested in Karachi Police-protester clash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KARACHI: Clashes broke out between protesters and police in various areas of Karachi, resulting in the arrest of hundreds, including women, for violating <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/punjab-imposes-section-144-in-five-more-districts-for-three-days\/\">Section 144<\/a>, which was imposed a day earlier.<\/p>\n<p>Protests were held at many places in Karachi including Karachi Press Club and Teen Talwar in Clifton. TV footage shows police baton-charging protesters and making arrests.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8216; Sindh Rawadari March&#8217; participants clashed with police outside the press club after violating Section 144, which bans gatherings of more than five people across the city.<\/p>\n<p>Police officials said that more than 100 protesters from different groups were arrested from different areas including Karachi Press Club, Metropole Hotel and outside Jinnah Hospital.<\/p>\n<p>During the clashes, four police personnel were injured and shifted to the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to reporters, South Deputy Inspector General (DIG) Syed Asad Raza confirmed that &#8220;at least 20 people, including women, have been detained so far.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Additional police force has been deployed on all routes leading to the Press Club.<\/p>\n<p>In a separate encounter near the Governor&#8217;s House, police fired teargas shells at protesters from a religious outfit, who were retaliating at the KPC, forcing them to move their rally to the Metropole Hotel.<\/p>\n<p>Amid tear gas, protesters pelted stones at riot police, injuring two officers, and allegedly set fire to a police van.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, at least 27 protesters, including women, were arrested near Three Swords in Clifton.<\/p>\n<p>Sindh Home Minister Zia Lanjar announced that police had detained &#8220;some protesters&#8221; for violating Section 144, which was imposed by the Karachi Commissioner.<\/p>\n<p>He warned of strict action against those who &#8220;took the law into their own hands&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The minister also confirmed that an investigation has been launched into the alleged &#8216;harassment&#8217; of journalists by law enforcement agencies at the Karachi Press Club, promising action against those responsible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KARACHI: Clashes broke out between protesters and police in various areas of Karachi, resulting in the arrest of hundreds, including women, for violating Section 144, which was imposed a day earlier. Protests were held at many places in Karachi including Karachi Press Club and Teen Talwar in Clifton. TV footage shows police baton-charging protesters and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":52444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[9882,5836,3034,22960],"class_list":["post-52443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan","tag-karachi-police","tag-section-144","tag-sindh-police","tag-karachi-press-club"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52443"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52445,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52443\/revisions\/52445"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}