Pak's MQM protests against 'disappearances and killings' of party workers

About three thousand workers and supporters of Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) party took to streets of Pakistan's Karachi to protest what they said "enforced disappearances and extra-judicial killings" of party workers. On January 15, one of the MQM leaders Hyder Abbas Rizvi had alleged that personnel of the law-enforcement agencies in plain clothes had been picking up MQM workers and subjecting them to torture, and in some cases, they killed their workers and dumped their bodies on the outskirts of the city. The paramilitary Rangers and police, who are currently conducting a joint operation in Karachi against the criminals, deny the allegations.