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Karachi police have registered a case under terrorism charges following a scuffle between two groups at the Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan’s headquarters in Karachi on Sunday.
The first information report, dated August 4 and a copy of which is available with Dawn, was registered at the New Town police station on behalf of the state, through Assistant Sub-Inspector Mirza Anwar Baig.
It invoked Sections 147 (punishment for rioting), 148 (rioting, armed with deadly weapon), 149 (every member of an unlawful assembly, guilty of offence committed in prosecution of common object), 337-A(i) (shajjah-i-khafifah or injuring someone’s head or face), 337H(ii) (punishment for hurt by rash or negligent act), 324 (attempt to murder), and 188 (disobedience to an order lawfully promulgated by a public servant) of the Pakistan Penal Code (PPC) and Section 7 (punishment for acts of terrorism) of the Anti-Terrorism Act.
Two named suspects, identified as Azhar alias Lumba and Zeeshan Habib, and 20-25 unidentified individuals have been nominated in the FIR.
