The committee has often been blamed for being linked to criminal activities operating in Karachi’s old areas, including Lyari.

In a late night development the ministry of home affairs in the southern province of Sindh had issued a notification announcing a ban on the committee which has been strongly supported and backed by the former Sindh home and senior minister, Zulfiqar Mirza.

Mirza whose resignation from the provincial assembly was accepted by the Speaker, Nisar Khuro and who has also resigned from his position of vice president of the PPP resigned as minister and from the assembly in late August after the law enforcement agencies launched a clean up operation in  Lyari area which is the stronghold of the Aman committee.

Mirza who returned from abroad on Monday had again given inflammatory statements in the media against the Mutthaida Qaumi Movement and declared the Aman Committee as clean of all criminal activities.

The home ministry in its notification said that the Aman Committee could on longer take part any sort of activities whether political or charitable.

"Evidence has been found by the law enforcement agencies that the Aman Committee is involved in criminal activities," the ministry notification said.