{"id":36008,"date":"2017-12-10T01:22:04","date_gmt":"2017-12-09T20:22:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=36008"},"modified":"2017-12-10T01:45:57","modified_gmt":"2017-12-09T20:45:57","slug":"police-baton-charge-defying-mqm-l-workers-arrested-ten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=36008","title":{"rendered":"Police baton charge defying MQM-L workers, arrested ten"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>KARACHI, Dec 10 (TNS): <\/strong>Police on Saturday resorted to baton charge against the workers of Muttahida Qaumi Movement London (MQM-L) and detained ten of them when they ignored warnings and resisted to continued their march towards \u2018Martyrs\u2019 Monument\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>The party has annually observed December 9 as \u2018Martyrs\u2019 Day\u2019. Party supremo Altaf Hussain\u2019s brother, Nasir Hussain, and nephew, Arif Hussain, were killed on Dec 9, 1995, in Karachi.<\/p>\n<p>The workers clashed with police and Law Enforcement Agencies (LEAs) at Liaquat Ali Khan Chowk that resulted in arrests including those of three women.<\/p>\n<p>Information minister Syed Nasir Shah had rhetorically asked how workers belonging to an anti-Pakistan party could be allowed to visit the monument. Shah said that the people who support the party should be jailed.<\/p>\n<p>The provincial minister had further said that MQM Pakistan was permitted to visit the place because it is focusing on politics of the national interest.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, MQM-L workers clashed with police at Pakka Qilla Chowk in Hyderabad as the party supporters moved towards \u2018martyrs\u2019 graveyard.<\/p>\n<p>However, the movement was checked and progress stopped as police intervened.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the day today, police had shops and roads in vicinity of Jinnah Ground shut creating issues for commuters and others.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KARACHI, Dec 10 (TNS): Police on Saturday resorted to baton charge against the workers of Muttahida Qaumi Movement London (MQM-L) and detained ten of them when they ignored warnings and resisted to continued their march towards \u2018Martyrs\u2019 Monument\u2019. The party has annually observed December 9 as \u2018Martyrs\u2019 Day\u2019. Party supremo Altaf Hussain\u2019s brother, Nasir Hussain, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36009,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,23],"tags":[145,589],"class_list":["post-36008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-karachi","category-national","tag-karachi","tag-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36008"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36019,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36008\/revisions\/36019"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/36009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}