KARACHI / HYDERABAD: MQM-London members were barred from reaching a monument in Karachi and a graveyard in Hyderabad to commemorate the party’s ‘martyrs day’ on Saturday.

Nearly a dozen activists of the MQM-London, including women, were detained by law-enforcement officials when they tried to breach the security cordon around the Yadgar-e-Shahuda in Karachi.

Earlier, hundreds of MQM-London workers, including women and children, gathered at Liaquat Ali Khan Chowk, formerly known as Mukka Chowk, on Saturday afternoon to mark the ‘martyrs day’. They were chanting slogans in favour of the party’s founder, Altaf Hussain.