Anwar was initially recruited as assistant sub-inspector of police ( ASI ) in 1982 after working as a clerk for a year . From 1992 to 1999 , Anwar played a main role in the operations against the Muttahida Quami Movement ( MQM ) in Karachi , in which many MQM members were either arrested or killed . When MQM came into power in 2002 during the Pervez Musharraf government , Anwar disappeared from Karachi . When the Pakistan Peoples Party came into power in 2008 , Anwar returned to Karachi . He was promoted from inspector to deputy superintendent of police ( DSP ) Kiamari and then to superintendent of police ( SP ) Gadap within a short space of time in 2008 . He was considered close to the former President of Pakistan Asif Ali Zardari . Anwar became senior superintendent of police ( SSP ) Malir in 2011 . In 2012 , he was demoted to the sub-inspector rank by a Supreme Court order but the President Asif Ali Zardari reinstated him as SSP Malir using his executive powers . In 2013 , Anwar was temporarily suspended by the Supreme Court following the deadly Abbas Town bombing . In 2015 , he was briefly suspended for " misusing authority " because of his controversial press conference , in which he alleged that MQM sent its workers to India to get them trained by the Indian intelligence agency RAW for spreading terror in Pakistan . The MQM activist Tahir Lamba , who had been arrested by Anwar before the press conference and accused of being a RAW agent , was released by the court later due to lack of evidence . In September 2016 , Anwar was suspended for raiding the house of the MQM leader Khawaja Izharul Hassan and detaining him without the permission of the Sindh Assembly speaker . Anwar challenged the suspension order in court and was reinstated a few weeks later
Abbas Town bombing
March 2013 Karachi bombing
Rao Anwar