MQM, Haqiqi men clash in Shah Faisal

Karachi
Activists of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement and the Mohajir Qaumi Movement-Haqiqi clashed in Shah Faisal Colony on Sunday evening.
An MQM activist suffered gunshot wounds and a motorcycle was torched in the violence.
SHO Ijaz Khan said the activists of the two rival parties confronted each other in Shah Faisal No-3 and started shouting slogans against each other.
He added that unknown miscreants opened fire during the clash between the two groups. A motorcycle was also torched in the incident.
Police rushed to the scene, compelling the two groups to escape. One of the activists was found lying injured there. He was shifted to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre and later to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital.
The SHO said the injured man was identified as Hassan, a resident of Shah Faisal Colony and an MQM activist. He said Hassan’s statement had been recorded and an FIR lodged against the people he had nominated.
A day earlier on polling day, rival political activists had clashed in Landhi over the hoisting of party flags and tearing of pictures and posters.
Activists of the two parties had become embroiled in a brawl outside a polling station. It erupted when activists of one group started tearing the pictures and posters of the rival party.
The clashing sides attacked each other with sticks and blows, and three activists from each side were injured.
During the brawl, two motorcycles and some pushcarts were also torched. Later, Rangers reached the scene and rounded up some suspects.