KARACHI: Karachi faced a complete shutdown on Tuesday as traders, transporters and fuel station owners decided to keep their regular operations closed after the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) announced that a ‘day of mourning’ would be observed against the ongoing wave of violence that has claimed nearly 100 lives in less than a week.
Moreover, two people were killed and another injured in incidents of violence in the city on Tuesday morning, DawnNews reported.
In one incident, a body trussed up in a gunny bag was found dumped in the Qasba Colony area.
Separately, in Malir, one person was targeted. He later succumbed to his injuries during treatment in a hospital. Another person was injured on the city’s Abul Hasan Isfhani Road.
The associations of transporters, wholesale and retail markets and fuel stations on Monday evening announced one by one that they would stay away from regular business on Tuesday, blaming police and security administration for failing to protect their businesses in such a situation.
Only two weeks back life in the city had come to a halt due to the shutter-down strike mainly called by the nationalist parties against the restoration of the 2001 local body system that also witnessed armed and arson attacks.
source:Dawn news.
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