Karachi Shops Shut, Buses Stop as Hussain Questioned in U.K.
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Shops closed and public buses stopped operating in Pakistan’s biggest city a day after U.K. police questioned Karachi’s most powerful political figure as part of a money-laundering investigation.
About 400 people blocked one of Karachi’s main streets to protest the U.K.’s treatment of Altaf Hussain, Karachi police spokesman Atiq Shaikh said by phone. Hussain, the 60-year-old head of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement, or MQM, was taken to a London police station yesterday to be interviewed, Nasir Jamal, Hussain’s spokesman, said by phone from Karachi.