`Women, youths affected the most by Lyari´s gang violence´
(WorldNews Pakistan)

Lyari’s prominent rights activist Parveen Naz believes that women’s sacrifices were instrumental in bringing peace to the oldest town of Karachi. “It was a gangs’ shootout incident of Jhatpat Market on March 12, 2014 in which women shoppers and children were killed in a merciless way that shook all of us. The residents did not see such horrific and merciless and stood up against gang violence.� Naz was speaking at a discussion titled ‘Understanding conflict in Lyari: Causes, consequences and way forward’, at Benazir Bhutto Shaheed University, Lyari. The Pakistan Instituted of Labour Education and Research (Piler) and the varsity’s debate...