Karachi police register case under terrorism law following scuffle at MQM-P's Karachi headquarters

Karachi police have registered a case under the terrorism law following a scuffle between two groups at the Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan’s headquarters in Karachi on Sunday. The first information report, dated August 4 and a copy of which is available with Dawn, was registered at the New Town police station on behalf of the state, through Assistant Sub-Inspector Mirza Anwar Baig. It invoked Sections 147 (punishment for rioting), 148 (rioting, armed with deadly weapon), 149 (every member of an unlawful assembly, guilty of offence committed in prosecution of common object), 337-A(i) (shajjah-i-khafifah or injuring someone’s head or face), 337H(ii) (punishment for hurt by rash or…