Ali Zaidi, other PTI leaders booked in DC office protest case.

KARACHI -- Karachi Police have registered a case against PTI Sindh President Ali Haider Zaidi and 17 other party workers under terrorism and other charges after rival political activists clashed outside the Keamari Deputy Commissioner's office. The clashes followed Sunday's local government elections, the contentious results of which were called into question by the PTI and Jamaat-i-Islami, whose workers took to the streets yesterday. The second phase of the local government elections was held in 16 districts of Sindh on Sunday.

Site-A police registered the first information report (FIR) at 7:20pm yesterday on a complaint of Kashif Mobin, the district manager of the People's Service Centre at the Keamari DC office.

The FIR has been registered under Section 7 (punishment for acts of terrorism) of the Anti-terrorism Act, 2017 along with Sections 147 (punishment for rioting), 148 (rioting, armed with deadly weapon), 149 (every member of unlawful assembly guilty of offence committed in prosecution of common object), 324 (attempt to commit...