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Karachi
Rangers unsealed on Tuesday Biryani of the Seas, a restaurant in Clifton owned by MQM MNA Ali Raza Abidi, five days after the paramilitary force had conducted a raid there to arrest some suspects and shut down the eatery.
“The restaurant finally opened at about 6pm in the evening today [Tuesday] and we’re preparing to start serving our customers again,” Abidi told The News.
The MQM MNA said his restaurant was sealed by the Rangers on July 23 after they had arrested some suspects dining there.
Abidi, who is in Islamabad for a National Assembly session, said Rangers had unsealed the restaurant after completing their investigation, but had not shared the details of the their findings with him.
His uncle, Hamid Abidi, and the restaurant’s manager and the MNA’s cousin, Hasan Raza, were present at the restaurant when Rangers officials arrived there to unseal it.
First they took both of them to the paramilitary force’s office near Kala Pul where they had kept the material confiscated in the raid including computers, ledger books, CCTV cameras and laptops. They handed over all the equipment to them with the exception of the CCTV cameras.
Abidi said Rangers had asked the restaurant’s administration to keep on eye on suspicious people dining there or even present near it and inform the paramilitary force about it in that case.
To a question about the customers’ response, he said it had been conveyed to the public that the restaurant had opened but as Tuesday was a week day, the turn out would obviously be less. However, he added, a grand reopening would be organised on Saturday. Hasan Raza was also arrested along with the six suspects in the raid but released in a few hours.