karachi

August 25, 2016

Waseem Akhtar’s mayoral victory tainted by May 12 legal challenge

ATC accepts interim charge sheet that names city mayor and 56 other suspects Karachi Hours before he was officially confirmed as Karachi's latest mayor, Waseem Akhtar was nominated as an accused in cases related to the May 12, 2007 carnage in an interim charge sheet that was accepted by the administrative judge of anti-terrorism courts with directives for submission of final charges at the earliest. Along with Akhtar, 56 other people including MPAs Muhammad Adnan and Kamran Farooqui were...