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KARACHI: The Pakistan Rangers Sindh on Friday obtained 90-day remand of political activist allegedly involved in targeted killing of 57 people. Sources in the paramilitary forces said the suspect arrested from Gulshan-e-Mamar area of the city is also involved in the killing of two paramilitary soldiers as well as armed attacks on police and Rangers mobiles.

KARACHI: Farooq Sattar, senior Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) leader, Thursday said ongoing targeted operation in Karachi against criminal elements is being used to "eliminate" his party. Addressing a press conference here, Sattar said a conspiracy is being hatched to sideline MQM from political arena and to replace it with some other political party by using the targeted operation.

KARACHI: Two traffic constables were killed in what appears to be a targeted attack in Karachi on Tuesday, SAMAA reports. The firing incident took place in Hyderi area of the city. According to sources, unknown gunmen riding a motorcycle opened fire on traffic police constables at Hyderi, leaving them critically wounded.

"KARACHI: Police in Karachi continued their anti-criminal 'targeted' action in the metropolis, eliminating three more alleged outlaws in an encounter, Samaa reported Tuesday."

KARACHI: Two policemen lost their lives in broad daylight attack in Karachi on Thursday. According to Samaa correspondent, the cops were gunned down by unknown bikers near Char Minar Chowrangi in Bahadurabad, one of city's busy commercial areas.

KARACHI: As many as five political workers have been arrested during a raid by the personnel of paramilitary force in Karachi area of Liaquatabad in Friday's wee hours. The rangers continued their targeted operation in different parts of the metropolis and arrested overnight five people hailing from a political party near Sindhi Hotel's Arshi Chowk area of Liaquatabad.

BEIRUT: Russian jets launched a fourth day of air raids in Syria Saturday, a monitor said, hitting the Islamic State group's main stronghold after claims Moscow was instead targeting moderate rebel factions. "Several Russian strikes hit IS positions west of Raqa overnight and explosions were heard in the city," Rami Abdel Rahman, head of the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, told AFP.

A tall target looked well beyond Pakistan when Zimbabwe's seamers reduced them to 56 for five, and after Graeme Cremer removed Mohammad Rizwan to make that 76 for six, the game appeared to be up. However Aamer Yamin along with Shoaib Malik counter-attacked in a brilliant 111-run stand for the seventh wicket, with the pair riding their luck as Zimbabwe dropped a series of catches.

Confident of victory in the upcoming by-election of NA-122, PML-N leaders targeted Imran Khan in their rallies in Lahore today. Watch details in this...;