{"id":9315,"date":"2026-02-14T21:21:58","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T21:21:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/?p=9315"},"modified":"2026-02-14T21:21:58","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T21:21:58","slug":"police-protester-clashes-erupt-as-jamaat-e-islami-rally-attempts-sit-in-outside-sindh-assembly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/?p=9315","title":{"rendered":"Police\u2013Protester Clashes Erupt as Jamaat-e-Islami Rally Attempts Sit-In Outside Sindh Assembly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"111\" data-end=\"384\"><span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Karachi<\/span><\/span> (HRNW) \u2013 Workers of <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Jamaat-e-Islami<\/span><\/span> attempted to stage a sit-in outside the Sindh Assembly, prompting police action that later led to clashes between protesters and law-enforcement personnel.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"386\" data-end=\"741\">Police had earlier blocked roads around the Sindh Assembly by placing barriers. However, in the evening, when Jamaat-e-Islami workers arrived in the form of a rally, confrontations broke out near Court Road. As tensions escalated, protesters moved forward with the main truck, after which police conducted a baton charge and shelling near Khazra Mosque.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"743\" data-end=\"1115\">Police officials seized the party\u2019s main truck and arrested several workers, shifting them to the police station. Authorities stated that a number of police personnel were also injured during stone-pelting and violence. Meanwhile, <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Muneem Zafar<\/span><\/span> alleged that the police acted on political orders but said the party would continue its struggle.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1117\" data-end=\"1209\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\"><em>Support balanced and independent journalism by donating at:<\/em> <strong><a class=\"decorated-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/donate-us\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\" data-start=\"1177\" data-end=\"1209\" data-is-last-node=\"\">https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/donate-us\/<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Karachi (HRNW) \u2013 Workers of Jamaat-e-Islami attempted to stage a sit-in outside the Sindh Assembly, prompting police action that later led to clashes between protesters and law-enforcement personnel. Police had earlier blocked roads around the Sindh Assembly by placing barriers. However, in the evening, when Jamaat-e-Islami workers arrived in the form of a rally, confrontations&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9316,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-karachi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9315"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9317,"href":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9315\/revisions\/9317"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}