KARACHI: Only women and the elderly were allowed to enter the Muttahida Qaumi Movement's Yadgar-e-Shuhada at Azizabad, a move which resulted in vehement protest by workers.
Workers including women protested outside the memorial and demanded that they be let in. Meanwhile Rangers controlled the crowd.
Heavy contingents of Rangers guarded the area.
Since MQM founder's speech on August 22 led to incitement of workers to attack media houses, the party has been constantly in troubled waters.
Apart from this, an inner rift resulted in formation of two factions -- Pakistan and London, with Farooq Sattar holding the reins and severing ties from London especially party founder Altaf Hussain.
Rangers crackdown also gained intensity asmore than129 MQM offices have been demolished in the megapolis.
After MQM founder’s August 22 anti-Pakistan speech, 218 party offices have been sealed including the party headquarters Nine Zero.