KARACHI: Two workers of the Awami National Party were booked for extorting money from shopkeepers on Wednesday.

Shah Faisal Colony Station House Officer Atif Shah said the two men Asif and Zafar were extorting shopkeepers near Falak Naz Apartment. The shopkeepers complained to the Muttahida Qaumi Movement workers who caught them and handed them over to the police. The officer said a case has been registered against them.

‘Stop police from harassing citizens’: President Awami National Party Sindh chapter Shahi Syed has demanded of the provincial government to stop police from intentionally harassing a particular ethnic group in the city.

The provincial head of the Pukhtoon-backed ANP said the police was arresting and harassing all those citizens who did not have identity cards. “At least the police should provide them an opportunity to present identity cards before lodging FIRs against them,” Syed demanded. He also criticised the role of National Database and Registration Authority saying it was reluctant to issue identity cards to a particular ethnic class in the city.

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