Published on 6/28/2026
Three Pakistani security personnel were killed on Saturday in an attack targeting the Sindh Rangers paramilitary building in Karachi, according to what Reuters reported from the local newspaper Dawn.
The Inspector General of Sindh Province, Jawad Alam Udo, told the newspaper that 3 militants were also killed in the attack on the local headquarters of the Sindh Rangers.
Witnesses said they heard a loud explosion followed by gunfire along a main road in Karachi’s Gultsan-e-Jawhar neighborhood, near a number of universities and the headquarters of the Pakistan Meteorological Department.
An eyewitness named Muhammad Bakhsh said that he was praying in a nearby mosque when he heard the explosion, adding, “I felt the ground shaking as if an earthquake had occurred.”
Bakhsh stated that when he came out, “smoke was filling the place, and then the shooting started,” noting that the shooting continued for about 15 minutes.
A Reuters correspondent reported that the shooting had stopped and that the situation was calm. According to the agency, this is the largest attack in Karachi since the explosion that targeted a Chinese convoy in October 2024, resulting in the deaths of two Chinese.
The Pakistani Sindh Rangers are a paramilitary force affiliated with the Ministry of Interior, working in close coordination with the army, and carrying out internal security and border protection tasks, according to the government website of the Punjab Province in Pakistan.
According to Reuters, major cities in Pakistan have rarely witnessed attacks in the past few years, but increasing armed activity in areas bordering Afghanistan has raised fears of the return of violence to urban centers.
