Mqm Members

Ahead of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's US visit next week, the MQM has appealed to the US government to impress upon the Pakistani leadership particularly security forces not to target its members in Karachi in the name of counter-terrorism operations.

Paramilitary forces raided the headquarters of a powerful Karachi political party and arrested two members on Friday, officials said, in a sign of deepening tensions between the army and politicians controlling Pakistan's biggest and richest city.

Ahead of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's US visit next week, the MQM has appealed to the US government to impress upon the Pakistani leadership particularly security forces not to target its members in Karachi in the name of counter-terrorism operations.

Paramilitary forces raided the headquarters of a powerful Karachi political party and arrested two members on Friday, officials said, in a sign of deepening tensions between the army and politicians controlling Pakistan's biggest and richest city.