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  • Expired meat found at godown of Karachi restaurant being probed over siblings' death

    The restaurant sealed in Karachi at the weekend following the death of two minor siblings, also had its godown sealed on Monday after food authorities said they found expired meat and squash bottles in their custody...

    The brothers had died on Sunday after dining out with their parents at Arizona Grill restaurant and consuming candy from a shop outside Chunky Monkey amusement park, according to police officials...

  • I am fighting a war for Karachi, says mayor Waseem Akhtar

    KARACHI: Karachi Mayor Waseem Akhtar has vowed to take on the provincial powers that be in order to reclaim the city from the neglect it has suffered since the Sindh government wrested control of Karachi Metropolitan Corporation’s municipal functions...

    Among his priorities is a campaign to revamp KMC, remove encroachments and revive Karachi’s green spaces, foremost among them being Bagh Ibne Qasim...

  • MQM's jailed Waseem Akhtar takes oath as Karachi mayor

    KARACHI: Jailed Karachi Mayor and Muttahida Qaumi Movement leader (MQM) Waseem Akhtar and deputy mayor Arshad Vohra, also of the MQM, took oath at Bagh-i-Quaid-i-Azam on Tuesday...

    Akhtar opened his speech with a slogan of "Long live Muttahida, long live Bhutto and long live Imran Khan...

  • Waseem Akhtar to run Karachi via 'video link' from behind bars

    KARACHI: The imprisoned politician and newly elected mayor of Karachi Waseem Akhtar will run the teeming metropolis via “video link” from his prison cell, his lawyer said on Wednesday...

    Waseem Akhtar, who was arrested last month on suspicion of aiding alleged militants, arrived in an armoured police vehicle at the British-era Karachi Metropolitan Corporation building to cast his vote in the final round of elections that has his party...

  • MQM nominates Waseem Akhtar for Karachi mayor

    KARACHI: Muttahida Qaumi Movement has announced Waseem Akhtar as its nominee for the position of Karachi mayor with Arshad Vohra as his deputy, DawnNews reported...

    Earlier this month, the MQM saw a landslide victory in local government elections in Karachi, clinching a maximum number of union committees – 135 of 209...

  • Karachi Mayor Waseem Akhtar released from jail

    Jailed mayor of Karachi and Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan leader Waseem Akhtar was released from jail on Wednesday after being granted bail in the last of 39 cases against him...

    An anti-terrorism court in Karachi granted bail to Waseem Akhtar and PPP's Abdul Qadir Patel in a case pertaining to the facilitation and provision of medical treatment to alleged terrorists and gangsters at PPP leader Dr Asim Hussain’s hospital...

  • ATC indicts Karachi Mayor Waseem Akhtar, others in May 12 carnage case

    An Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) on Tuesday indicted Karachi Mayor Waseem Akhtar and others in a case pertaining to the May 12, 2007, riots on Tuesday, 11 years after the incident...

    Around 50 people were killed and over 100 wounded in attacks on rallies by different political parties and the legal fraternity which were going to receive the then deposed chief justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry at Karachi airport to attend a lawyers’...

  • Will resign if a single house is razed in Karachi: Mayor Waseem Akhtar

    After the federal government on Friday filed a review petition before the Supreme Court against the ongoing anti-encroachment drive in Karachi, Mayor Waseem Akhtar held a press conference to record protest against plans to demolish illegal houses during an anti-encroachment drive being run under his supervision in Karachi...

    "I will resign if a single house is touched," Akhtar told the news conference...

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