Calling it a `surgical operation`, heavily-armed paramilitary forces and police conducted house by house searches to roundup terrorists, target killers and kidnappers as the toll from the bloodletting in the city topped 100 lives, officials said.
The operation went underway as fresh firing cases were reported from the worst-affected Lyari area, injuring seven people who were rushed to hospital for treatment.
The security forces comprising the Rangers fanned out into the worst-hit Lyari, Orangi Town, Malir, Gulshin-e-Iqbal, Ahsan Abad, Saddar and some other parts of the city, which had witnessed spate of incidents of firing during the past week.
The forces moved in after cordoning off the areas and blocking traffic movement. They were on the lookout for a huge cache of arms believed to be stashed up by terrorists and other gangs in the city.
Though the paramilitary forces have started an operation, demands persisted from the city`s Urdu speaking settlers Mohajirs and Pashtun speaking groups for deployment of the Army to check the runaway violence.
The search operations came amidst a total shutdown in the metropolis with crossfire dominant Mutahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) giving the call to protest the government`s failure to cull violence.
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