Pakistan
Pakistan: Police conduct raids in Karachi to arrest six news channel staffers
Islamabad: The Islamabad Police attempted to arrest six staff members of a news channel in Pakistani city of Karachi on Saturday, media reports said.
The police conducted raids in different localities of Karachi, including South Zone, but proved unsuccessful, sources told Dawn News.
Majority of the houses raided by the police were found abandoned since long, while few of them were in a deserted place, they said, adding that later they left Karachi for Islamabad, reports Dawn News.
The raids were conducted in response to directives from the authorities concerned, the sources said, adding that the authorities believed that Shahbaz Gill was not alone in the ‘conspiracy’.
Different PTI leaders and some staff members of the news channel have been identified as being involved in hatching the ‘conspiracy’, they added.
Meanwhile, a decision has also been taken to club the case registered against staff members of the news channel at Karachi’s Memon Goth police station with the one registered at Kohsar police station in Islamabad.
According to the officers, a request is being made to the Sindh government to refer the case registered at Memon Goth police station to Kohsar police station in Islamabad.
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