THATTA: Nearly a dozen suspects, including a Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) activist, were rounded up by a strong contingent of Rangers personnel in several raids carried out at a Brohi clan settlement in Thatta on Wednesday.

The Rangers contingent coming from Karachi reportedly picked up those suspect who were `wanted by police in some particular cases`, according to sources privy to the law enforcement agencies in the city.

The sources said PPP activist Ali Sher Brohi was the most prominent among the suspects rounded up in the early morning raids, adding that most of them were allegedly involved in kidnapping for ransom, land-grabbing, murder and extortion cases. Arms, ammunition, liquor and money were seized from Brohi, but the number/quantity of the articles was not disclosed. Some other suspects taken into custody were identified as Qasim Ghirano, Wahid Bukhsh, Mooral, Noor Hassan and Ali Nawaz.