Terror incidents in Karachi reduced by 80 percent: Nisar

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Says target killings down by 53pc; foreign agencies stopped from working in Pakistan; no Blackwater agent present in country; submits report on performance of Interior Ministry in NA

ISLAMABAD: Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan on Thursday said there had been an 80 percent reduction in acts of terrorism in Karachi since the start of the operation on September 5, 2013. He said considerable reduction in the occurrence of other crimes including target killings (53%), murders (30%) and robberies (35%) had been witnessed. The minister said no foreign agency was allowed to carry out activities in the country and there was no agent of Blackwater in the federal capital.