Summary KARACHI: Mobile phone services have been suspended till 3:00PM in Karachi.
Interior Minister Rehman Malik had said on Thursday that there was a terror threat in Karachi for Friday, hence mobile phone services were closed at 12PM today.
Malik further said that all stake-holders were consulted over the matter and preparations were underway to increase security around religious institutions and to improve police patrolling adding that the motive for unrest in Karachi was to destabilise the country.
Over a dozen people were killed on Thursday in different incidents of violence across the city. The targeted victims included included a religious scholar of Karachi s Jamia Binoria, his driver and a fellow colleague, who were shot dead on Shahah-e-Faisal near Nursery area of Karachi.
