(MENAFN- Khaleej Times) The city presented a deserted look as vehicular traffic remained sparse on the roads
The Karachi Transport Ittehad had also announced to keep public transport off the roads in support of the strike
Fearing security issues, all private schools in Karachi remained closed on Friday as a precaution, but the Sindh Education Department decided not to declare it a public holiday
Shortly after the Private Schools Management Association, All Private Schools Management Association and Peak Private Schools Management announced the closure, the Sindh education department issued a statement that though the department condemned the unfortunate incident in Balochistan and the unrest that followed, it hoped that children's education would not be disturbed by it. "Therefore all government schools will remain open on Friday," said a spokesman for the education department
The Karachi University also announced postponement of all examinations scheduled for the day. A new date would be announced later
Karachi Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam (JUI-F) chief Qari Mohammed Usman flanked by leaders of JUI-S, Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat, Sawad-i-Azam, Tanzeem-ul-Ulema, Majlis Khatm-i-Nabuwat, Ishaat Tauheed-o-Sunnat and others, had announced the call for the strike at a Press conference in Karachi Press Club on Wednesday
Qari Usman said Karachi was the jugular vein and largest city of Pakistan where ulema, students, lawyers and doctors were being killed for the last couple of years, but their killers remain untraced
Moreover, the MWM had observed a country-wide strike and sit-ins and demonstrations in Karachi, Lahore, Multan and Rawalpindi on Thursday over Tuesday's killing of Hazara devotees in a suicide bombing that took place in Balochistan's restive Mastung district
Karachi, the largest metropolitan city of Pakistan, is riddled with targeted killings, gang wars, kidnappings for ransom, extortion and terrorism
Targeted operations led by Rangers' forces with the support of police are ongoing in the city under a directive issued by the federal government against criminals already identified by federal, military and civilian agencies. - Onlin
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