The Pakistan Rangers Sindh on Wednesday claimed that the Muttahida Qaumi Movement-London (MQM-L) has set up teams across Karachi to target political leaders who have quit the group to join other political parties, as well as its opponents.

The Rangers in a press release announced the arrest of two MQM-L workers allegedly tasked with sabotaging the election process by targeting candidates and local politicians and disrupting the law and order situation in Karachi.

The press release claimed that the suspects, Muhammad Bilal Lodhi and Muhammad Irshad, were associated with MQM-L's South Africa network. The two were arrested from Orangi Town with the help of police.

The Rangers said that the arrested suspects confessed to their involvement in planning terrorist activities in the city ahead of the elections. They also admitted toRabat, MOROCCO – On October 28, 2016, Mohsine Fikri, a 31-year-old fish seller, was crushed in a garbage truck while trying to retrieve the merchandise that had been confiscated from him by authorities. The tragedy took place in the city of El Hoceima, in the Rif region in northern Morocco. Fikri’s horrendous death shocked the Moroccan public and prompted protests in more than twenty cities, raising fears among political leaders of a reawakening of the pro-democracy protest movement which shook the country in 2011, in the wake of the Tunisian and Egyptians revolutions.

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