We will bury alive Pak Rangers having faith of Wahabi Fitnah Bin La-Deeni Taghoot.
We should not allow this Taliban inspired Rangers Militants to shot @ Shias while they were busy taking funeral procession. I hope they should be punished the worst way.
They knew its not their city, not people of their Wahabi Fitnah, so they openly shot dead 4 shia mourners.
We will hang them alive on electric poles and stone them to last breathing to teach a lesson to Terror Talibanic Coward Armed Forces of Broken and Shattered Pakistan.
Unarmed youth shot dead by Rangers at point blank
Published: June 9, 2011
Rangers personnel shot dead an unarmed youth in Clifton.
KARACHI: An unarmed youth was shot dead by Rangers personnel in Karachi on Wednesday evening.
According to latest reports, the youth was apprehended by Rangers personnel near the Benazir Park opposite Boat Basin area in Clifton.
As the youth pleaded to be released, one of the Rangers personnel took his rifle and shot him, twice, at point blank range. Rangers maintain that the youth was involved in snatching mobile phones.
The Sindh Chief Minister has taken note of the incident and the officers, who were caught on camera shooting the young man, have been arrested.
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Unarmed youth shot dead by Rangers at point blank
By Faraz Khan
Published: June 9, 2011
Rangers personnel shot dead an unarmed youth in Clifton.
KARACHI: A youth was killed when Rangers shot him in a busy area of Karachi, Boat Basin, television channels reported late on Wednesday.
Five men from the Ghazi wing of the Rangers are said to be involved in the incident, of whom two have been arrested.
Video footage of the incident showed the Rangers killing the man, Sarfaraz Shah, who had a pistol in his hand, after beating him up.
Before being shot, Shah had tried to grab the security forces’ weapons.
Initially, the police and Rangers had claimed that they were informed that a dacoit had held a family hostage in Benazir Bhutto Park. The security personnel claimed that they went inside the park and asked the man to surrender. When he refused to do so, the Rangers shot at him in retaliation. Shah was injured and died after reaching Jinnah Hospital, security personnel said.
Shah was the brother of Salik Shah, a reporter of Samaa TV. The family of the deceased along with journalists held a protest at the chief minister’s house in Karachi. The chief minister has taken notice of the incident.
The Sindh information minister, Sharjeel Memon has said that no leniency will be shown to the culprits.
Political parties, including the ANP and the MQM, have condemned the incident.
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Pakistan army ‘expels’ 90 US military trainers
* Senior military official says two-thirds of an estimated 135 US officials training FC have left country
* Says other Americans have also been ordered to leave
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s army has sent home two-thirds of the US military personnel who were training its forces in counterinsurgency skills along the porous border with Afghanistan.
A senior military official said late Tuesday that 90 of an estimated 135 US trainers have left the country, the latest setback in the deeply troubled relationship between the United States and Pakistan’s military following the May 2 US raid that killed al Qaeda leader Osama bin laden.
The 90 Americans had been training the Frontier Corps, a paramilitary force made up mostly of tribesmen from the frontier areas, according to the military official, who asked not to be named in accordance with military practice.
The Frontier Corps is Pakistan’s front line force against terrorists in the tribal regions. The US military personnel were teaching members of the force to become trainers.
The US has confirmed it is reducing the number of its military personnel in Pakistan but has not given an exact figure.
“We have reassessed our requirements and sent 90 people home,” said the official. Other Americans have also been ordered to leave Pakistan, but the official would not elaborate or provide details.
“Where essential elements are required we are keeping them. In very critical areas of maintenance and technical capability, where we do not have the qualified people then we are keeping them,” he said. “But otherwise they are being asked to leave.”
Washington’s relationship with Pakistan has been shaky for months. Pakistan first requested a withdrawal of US forces after the arrest and detention in January of CIA security contractor Raymond Davis, the official and Western diplomats have said. Davis was arrested for the shooting deaths of two Pakistani men, who he said were trying to rob him. He was eventually released in March.
The bin Laden raid worsened relations and escalated the drawdown of US personnel in Pakistan. ap
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Rangers killing: Youth laid to rest, condemnations pour in
By AFP / Express
Published: June 9, 2011
Scores of people attend funeral prayers of 19-year-old matric student who was shot dead by Rangers in Karachi.
KARACHI: Funeral prayers of the youth shot dead in a public park by Rangers were held in Karachi on Thursday.
Scores of people attended the funeral prayers of 19-year-old student Sarfaraz Shah, who was shot at point blank range in a public park in an incident filmed live and broadcast on television on Wednesday. Shah’s body has been taken by relatives for burial.
Earlier, Shah’s relatives took his body and protested outside the house of the Sindh Chief Minister Qaim Ali Shah demanding that the soldiers be arrested. The CM ordered an inquiry and suspended a senior police official for charging the youth with robbery after his death. Police subsequently arrested the five Rangers involved in the incident, and a case has been registered against Afzal and Shahid Zafar.
The Rangers claim that Shah had tried to rob a policeman’s family. A police official later told AFP on condition of anonymity that only a toy gun had been recovered.
Town Police Officer (TPO) Tarik Dharajo said that five Rangers personnel had been arrested following this incident. He added, however, that legal action cannot be initiate against them till they are court-martialled, as they are paramilitary security officials.
Dharejo said that they will be charged under the Pakistan Penal Code.
Condemnations aplenty
Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani took notice of the killing on Thursday, and ordered an inquiry into the matter. The prime minister promised to personally handle the incident.
Senator Raza Rabbani compared the extra-judicial killing to the Kharotabad killing in which five foreigners were shot dead by security officials.
President of the Supreme Court Bar Association and prominent human rights activist, Asma Jahangir also condemned the killing.
“Seeing this, anyone can guess how brutalised our society has become,” Jahangir told AFP.
Interior Minister Rehman Malik ordered the arrest of the soldiers involved and a departmental inquiry.
“This act is extremely unlawful, even if the youth was a robber it did not merit to kill him like this,” Malik told TV channels.
“The suspects in the incident have been arrested. I have ordered for a thorough inquiry.”
Footage of the incident, filmed by an unidentified cameraman, was broadcast repeatedly on local television stations.
In it, a soldier can be seen dragging the man, then throwing him towards half a dozen armed comrades, one of whom then shot the 19-year-old twice at point-blank range as he begged for his life.
The park where the incident took place is named after assassinated former prime minister Benazir Bhutto, whose family home is in Clifton.
Correction: June 9, 2011
Initial reports claimed that Sarfaraz Shah was 25 years old. Latest reports say that he was 19 years old.
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