Summary Rangers conducted raids in different area of the metropolis today.
KARACHI (Web Desk) - Rangers personnel have arrested arrested at least twenty-nine suspected criminals during raids in different areas of Karachi today (Thursday).
A spokesman of Rangers said that those arrested include gangsters of Lyari and several of them affiliated with political groups.
Weapons have also been recovered from their possession.
Karachi, a city of 18 million people, has a long history of violence, much of it associated with gangs linked to the city s political parties.
Recent years have been especially bloody. There were 2,174 people killed in Karachi last year, according to the Citizens Police Liaison Committee, the deadliest year since the organization began collecting figures in 1994.
This year is on track to be even worse. There were 1,894 people killed in the first eight months of 2013.
The government launched a wide-ranging crackdown in Karachi about few weeks ago using paramilitary forces, but such operations have failed in the past to provide a lasting solution to the violence.
