Situation improves as Rangers deployed in Karachi

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Situation improves as Rangers deployed in Karachi

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Situation has started to return to normalcy after deployment of Rangers in Karachi.

09 July,2011 09:26 pm

Over 100 people have lost lives in days of violence in Karachi. Our paramilitary soldiers have secured the troubled localities and hills where armed terrorists were firing on innocent people, and have restored normal life, interior minister Rehman Malik told reporters.Well treat anyone who disrupts Pakistans financial capital as a supporter of Taliban and an enemy operating against our war on terror, he said.Authorities said they had asked residents evacuated as the violence broke out to return home but few had responded.The latest bout of killings comes days after the MQM walked out of the federal government led by the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP).By Saturday evening, authorities said more than 150 suspects were detained and that paramilitary Rangers and other security units had brought the violence under complete control.The Rangers have completely taken over the affected areas and the miscreants have been swept out, said Maj. Farooq Bilal, a Rangers spokesman.