Sit-ins by MWM protesting the Parachinar scenario expanded throughout Karachi.

KARACHI: On Thursday, commuters experienced difficulty as the Majlis Wahdat-e-Muslimeen (MWM) held sit-ins in protest of the circumstances in Parachinar city in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Kurram district extended to other parts of Karachi.

More than 130 people have been murdered in the skirmishes in Parachinar, and rumors of over 100 children dying as a result of the city’s lack of medications have surfaced. Barrister Muhammad Ali Saif, a spokesman for the KP administration, refuted the local claims of the children’s deaths.
Approximately two and a half months have passed since the Peshawar-Parachinar Road and the Afghan border were closed to traffic.

Following the gun attack on passenger cars, which led to yet another round of violence in Kurram, the situation deteriorated.

Due to severe shortages of everyday necessities including food, petrol, and gasoline, residents of Upper Kurram are in dire difficulties as a result of the roads being closed. Their situation has been made worse by the lack of medications, which has prompted a six-day sit-in protest at the Parachinar Press Club.

The MWM started their demonstrations and sit-ins in Karachi’s Numaish Chowrangi, and they later extended to other locations, such as the vicinity of Malir 15 and Star Gate on Sharea Faisal, the city’s major thoroughfare.

According to the Karachi Traffic Police, traffic has been impacted and cars are being rerouted to alternate routes.

The traffic police claimed in a statement posted on X, previously Twitter, that there is a lot of traffic on the Main National Highway, Malir 15 to Quaidabad, as well as on the routes that run from Sharea Faisal to Kala Chapra.

Traffic is moving slowly, according to the police, therefore they are rerouting cars heading to Sharea Faisal from Nipa, Drigh Road, and Gulistan-e-Johar to Dalmia.

The people of Parachinar are under attack from all sides, according to MWM leader Allama Hassan Zafar Naqvi. He threatened to start protesting in all of Pakistan’s divisional headquarters if the scenario continued.

He stated their support for the Parachinar sit-in and urged the KP and federal governments to reopen the blocked routes.

In his phone call from Numaish, MWM head Allama Raja Nasir Abbas Jafri stated that a human catastrophe was taking place in Kurram Agency.

“Deaths are being caused by the closure of roads due to lack of food and medicine,” Jafri stated, emphasizing that the government should grant the people’s requests.