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KARACHI: At least 19 people were killed and several others were injured in rampant firing at Shershah scrapyard in Karachi on Tuesday evening, bringing the total death toll to 64.
According to Express 24/7 correspondent Ahmed Jung, more than 10 people started shooting in the area. Police and Rangers had a checkpoint in the area but were not able to control the situation.
Eyewitnesses said the the assailants just walked into the market and opened fire at the people there and then managed to escape.
Earlier in the day. the police had an encounter with target killers in Malir who were taking four people to a ground to shoot them there. However, the target killers managed to escape on foot. According to the police the assailants belonged to the banned outfit Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA).
Earlier in the day five people were killed in the Landhi and Ranchore line areas of the city.
Meanwhile, Rangers have made 86 arrests with regards to this situation.
Reactions to the recent killings
Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) leader Babar Ghauri said that the government is responsible for the killings in Karachi, adding that everyone knows who is behind the target killings.
Meanwhile, Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) leader Nabeel Gabol said that his party would support a military operation in Karachi as the situation had got tense and the administration is finding it hard to control it.
Awami National Party (ANP) leader Shahi Syed said that Karachi must be de-weaponised and Rangers and police should be given full powers to control the worsening situation.
12 killed in Shershah scrapyard in Karachi
Ten people were killed in rampant firing in the Shershah area of Karachi. PHOTO: FILE/AFP
Ten people were killed in rampant firing in the Shershah area of Karachi. PHOTO: FILE/AFP Five more people have been killed in Karachi since Tuesday morning. PHOTO: RASHID AJMERI/EXPRESS
KARACHI: At least 12 people were killed and several others were injured in rampant firing at Shershah scrapyard in Karachi on Tuesday evening, bringing the total death toll to 62.
According to Express 24/7 correspondent Ahmed Jung, more than 10 people started shooting in the area. Police and Rangers had a checkpoint in the area but were not able to control the situation.
Eyewitnesses said the the assailants just walked into the market and opened fire at the people there and then managed to escape.
Meanwhile, police stations are not accepting the jurisdiction of the region in terms of registering the FIR, while rescue teams took the injured to nearby hospitals.
Earlier in the day. the police had an encounter with target killers in Malir who were taking four people to a ground to shoot them there. However, the target killers managed to escape on foot. According to the police the assailants belonged to the banned outfit Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA).
DIG South has said that it is too early to comment on the situation at the moment.
Earlier in the day five people were killed in the Landhi and Ranchore line areas of the city.
Meanwhile, Rangers have made 86 arrests with regards to this situation.
Updated from print edition (below)
Nine more killings, 4 victims targeted
Nine more people were killed on Monday as violence continued in the aftermath of PS-94 by-elections.
A 30-year-old man was gunned down in what is believed to be a target killing. The victim, Mian Azam Shah, was sitting with his friends, Fazal and Khurshid Baloch, near his house in Baldia, when an unidentified man opened fire at him.
Shah died immediately while his friends were injured. The police took the body and the injured men to Civil hospital.
According to DSP Zahid, the victim belonged to Swat and had arrived in the city only 20 days ago. The attack on Monday was the second such attempt on him, he said, adding that he was shot and injured 18 days ago. SHO Rao Khalid believed personal enmity could be a reason behind the murder.
A 28-year-old private security guard was shot dead near Ghani Chowrangi within the jurisdiction of Site B police station. The victim, Noor Muhammad, was a resident of Frontier Colony.
Awami Colony police found a bullet-ridden and tortured body from bushes in Korangi. SHO Zawwar Hussain Shah said the victim was shot once in the head. They have yet to identify it.
Gulshan-e-Iqbal police also found a body inside a gunny bag near Disco Bakery, Gulshan-e-Iqbal, Block 4. DSP Afnan Amin said that unidentified men in a Cultus threw the body near the bakery and fled. They have yet to ascertain the victim’s identity.
Another security guard was killed in Hussainabad within the jurisdiction of Azizabad police station. The victim was identified as 22-year-old Malik Aqeel, son of Falak Sher.
Meanwhile, a 24-year-old police cadet was gunned down in Dawood Goth. The victim, identified as Atif Baloch, son of Rasul Buksh Baloch, was going to Razzaqabad Training Centre on his motorcycle when unidentified men shot him. Malir City police took his body to Jinnah hospital.
Atif, resident of Bagh-e-Ali Malir, was a trainee policeman. SHO Ali Hassan Sheikh said that his murder may not be an incident of target killing. “He might have been hit by a stray bullet,” he said.
Manghopir police found bodies of a man and a woman at Nooruddin Goth near Hub pumping station. The victims appear to be in their mid 20s but we have yet to identify them, said Inquiry Officer Asif Tarrar.
Tarrar said that torture and burns marks were visible on the bodies. “It looked like they were kidnapped and then killed,” he added. The police, who have yet to register an FIR, believed that the couple were killed in the name of honour. The bodies were shifted to Abbasi Shaheed Hospital and later taken to Edhi morgue.
A 28-year-old man died when a stray bullet hit him in Maula Ram Compound in Bakra Piri within the jurisdiction of Malir City police station. The victim, Rizwan alias Zulfi, was standing on the roof of his house when the bullet hit his head. SHO Ali Hassan Sheikh said the victim was a sympathiser of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement.
24 suspects arrested
Eight police parties of the south zone have arrested 21 suspects while Surjani Town police have arrested three suspects on Monday.
Jackson police, led by SHO Tariq Rahim, arrested Niaz Muhammad, accused of being involved in the target killing of ASI Ghulam Abbas and Constable Talib Hussain, who were killed on August 8 this year. The police also caught two drug-peddlers, Saeed Ahmed and Naveed Khan.
Mauripur police, led by SHO Asif Munawar, arrested two bandits, Asif and Muhammad Rafiq. The police also arrested murder suspects, Rafia Ahmed and Asif. Saddar police arrested two street criminals, Muhammad Ali and Shakeel.
Ferozabad police, led by SHO Yaqoob Samun, arrested three men accused of lifting motorcycles. The suspects were identified as Azizullah, Shabbir Ahmed and Muhammad Mithal. Two robbers, Saleem and Fida Hussain, were also caught.
SHO Gizri police Arshad Janjua and his team arrested street criminal Muhammad Aslam after a raid. Garden police have arrested a fugitive woman, Nadia alias Sadia Noshi. Mithadar police have arrested two criminals, Zameer Hussain and Ishaq Ali.
Published in The Express Tribune, October 19th, 2010.
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Violence continues in Pakistan's Karachi; 30 more killed
19 Oct 2010 14:44:42 GMT
Source: Reuters
(For full Pakistan coverage, click on [nAFPAK]) (Adds details, updates tolls to include other attacks)
KARACHI, Oct 19 (Reuters) - Violence continued in Pakistan's troubled southern city of Karachi on Tuesday, with at least 16 people killed in different attacks, including eight in one incident, police and officials said.
At least 70 people have been killed in Karachi since Saturday when violence erupted ahead of a by-election to replace a provincial lawmaker murdered in August, raising fears of instability in the country's commercial capital.
Senior police official Naveed Khawaja said unknown gunmen riding on motorcycles opened fire in the Sher Shah area, known locally for used cars and machine parts.
Eight people were killed and 10 injured in the incident, said Hashim Raza, health secretary of Sindh province of which Karachi is the capital.
Another eight were killed in other incidents in the city on Tuesday, police said, though it was not clear if all the attacks were related to the ongoing violence.
The Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM), the dominant political force in Karachi, has already stepped up pressure on the government to stem the violence. The MQM says its workers were among those killed. [ID:nSGE69H0FZ]
According to sources, the MQM threatened over the weekend to to pull out of the coalition government with President Asif Ali Zardari's Pakistan People's Party to protest the violence.
The move, which party sources say was put "on hold" on assurances of strong action to contain the violence, could lead to the government losing its National Assembly majority, or even its downfall if the MQM sides with the opposition.
Political and ethnic rivalries and turf wars -- sometimes linked to criminal gangs -- make it difficult to maintain order in Karachi, home to Pakistan's main port, stock exchange and central bank and the main gateway for Western military supplies bound for neighbouring landlocked Afghanistan.
Karachi generates 68 percent of the government's revenue and 25 percent of Pakistan's gross domestic product. (Full Pakistan coverage: http://www.reuters.com/places/pakistan) (Reporting by Faisal Aziz; Editing by Chris Allbritton) E-mail: faisal.aziz@thomsonreuters.com; Karachi newsroom: +92-21 3568 5192) (If you have a query or comment about this story, send an e-mail to news.feedback.asia@thomsonreuters.com)
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Karachi deluges in grief after 41 new target killings
Upadated on: 20 Oct 10 03:14 PM
Staff Report
KARACHI: The city of the lights, Karachi, is deeply deluged in grief after 41 new target killings in the last 24 hours. A fresh killing spree continues in the metropolis; law enforcement agencies seem to be totally helpless to curb this menace constantly hanging over the head of every resident of the city.
More than 70 people have been killed since Saturday when violence erupted ahead of a by-election to replace a provincial lawmaker murdered in August, raising fears of instability in the country's commercial capital.
Early Wednesday morning, a bag packed with the dead body of a 30-year-old was recovered from Azizabad. Last night, two persons were shot dead near Malir Canal, while another person was killed on Abul Hassan Isphani Road.
More than a dozen terrorists entered a second-hand tools and parts market in Shershah Tuesday evening, and opened fire point blank on shopkeepers. Consequently, 13 persons died and many others sustained injuries.
Yesterday, Hamid Sarbazi was shot dead in Mominabad, Haryana Colony and Abdullah was targeted with bullets in Landhi. The bodies of Abid and Salim were recovered from Risala with their hands and legs tied. Nawaz Zikri was killed in Ranchor Line and an unknown person was killed in Malir.
The other killings incidents took place in Garden, M.A. Jinnah Road, Gulistan-e-Johar, Shahra-e-Noor Jahan, North Nazimabad, Pak Colony and Moosa Colony.
Unknown miscreants also torched a laundromat in Garden. SAMAA
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Lyari’s Baba Ladla held?
CID police also pick up 4 target killing suspects
KARACHI: There were strong rumours from Friday night that the police have arrested Lyari gangster Baba Ladla for whom the government was offering Rs1 million.
According to unconfirmed reports, the police were tipped off that Noor Mohammad alias Baba Ladla, was in Mauripur. They seized two TT pistols, two Kalashnikovs and other weapons from them.
Ladla is believed to be involved in the Shershah market attack. FIR No. 578/2010, was registered against him and he is wanted in over 70 cases and was known as the right-hand man of Rehman ‘Dakait’, who was shot dead in a 2009 “encounter”.
Ladla is known for always carrying his own weapons, which includes a hand grenade.
Separately, the police arrested Mohammad Khalid alias Chamber, who has allegedly confessed to killing over 12 people.
4 ‘target killers’ arrested
The security forces claimed to have arrested men involved in targeting policemen and political workers of the government’s coalition parties.
The CID presented Bilal Zafar, Muhammad Hanif, Babar Mumtaz and Muhammad Asad to the media Saturday after arresting them a day earlier in New Karachi. Earlier, they were remanded into police custody till Oct 27 by Judicial Magistrate Central Sara Junejo.
They were booked under section 353 (encounter with police), section 324, sections 13 D and 13 E of the Arms Ordinance.
“They have been involved in target killings which have taken place over the last few years and we suspect their involvement in other cases as well,” said CID SSP Operations Fayyaz Khan.
Bilal Zafar was picked up from a house on Services Road, near al Aqsa mosque, Liaquatabad, by a CID team led by DSP Chaudry Safdar and supervised by SSP Khan. A Kalashnikov, rifle, pistol, knife and 65 rounds of bullets were seized along with two motorcycles from their possession. The two motorcycles were snatched from Clifton and Zaman towns.
The four suspects allegedly gunned down Mahir Khan in Allah Wallah Town. The Korangi Industrial Area police lodged the FIR. Zafar is said to have confessed to have killed Kashif, a political activist, near Ghousia Mosque, Liaquatabad.
Bilal Zafar, along with his other companions, Haneef Babar and Asad killed Liaquatabad moharrar ASI Javed in Garden. The ASI was killed just because he knew of their crimes, the CID said. The group also allegedly killed a man named Mansoor Asim in Liaquatabad.
They are also accused of killing activist Kaleem Ahmed with a Kalashnikov snatched from a policeman.
with additional reporting by Fawad Shah
Published in The Express Tribune, October 24th, 2010.
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Shershah bridge case: NHA chief nabbed from courtroom
Updated at: 1602 PST, Saturday, November 06, 2010
Shershah bridge case: NHA chief nabbed from courtroom KARACHI (Afzal Nadeem): The district court, dismissing the interim challan in Shershah Bridge collapse case in 2007, cancelled interim bail of the accused, Geo News reported Saturday.
Chairman of National Highway Authority Altaf Chaudhry among three others was arrested from courtroom; while, other accused including former chairman managed to flee the court.
Additional District and Sessions Judge (West) Gulshan Ara Chandio heard the case.
The NHA chief Altaf Chaudhry, former Chairman A Raja Farrukh Javed, Syed Najamul Hassan, Khalid Mirza, Naveed Zaheer and Raja Nosherwan appeared before the court.
The court, discharging the interim challan presented by police for interim bail, held the previous challan as effective and declined the bail plea of the accused.
Former NHA chief Raja Farrukh Javed managed to dodge the police out of the court, as the court dismissed their bail plea.
The court endorsed the bail of Naveed Zaheer, Raja Nosherwan, Tehseenul Haq and Naveed Mirza.
The arrested were kept firstly at City Court lockup and later shifted to Central Jail Karachi.
In previous hearing, the Investigation Officer (IO) submitted a report regarding the Shershah Bridge collapse case before the Additional District and Sessions Court, wherein the accused, nominated in the FIR, were found innocent.
IO Ejaz appeared before Additional District and Sessions Judge (West) Gulshan Ara Chandio and submitted the report about the case. The IO said that after conducting inquiry regarding the incident all the accused, including NHA Chairman Altaf Ahmed Chaudhry, former NHA Chairman Maj-General Farrukh Javed, NHA Member (Operations) Raja Nowsherwan, NHA General Manager (Construction) Mohammed Yousaf Barakzai, former NHA General Manager (Construction) Colonel (Retd) Tahseen-ul-Haq, former NHA Member (Planning) Syed Najamul Hassan, Chairman of Engineering Consultants International Limited Zaheer Mirza and directors Khaild Mirza and Naveed Mirza were found innocent. While no evidence was found against them to prove their involvement or fault regarding the incident.
According to the prosecution, as many as five people were killed, 14 others were injured and six vehicles got damaged when a portion of the Shershah flyover collapsed on Sept 1, 2007.
The area police had registered a case against the accused. An FIR (181/2010) was registered under Sections 322 (punishment for qatl-bis-sabab), 431 (mischief by injury to public road, bridge, river or channel), 427 (mischief causing damage to the amount of fifty rupees), 337-H (punishment for hurt by rash or negligent act) and 34 (common intention) of the Pakistan Penal Code.
It must be mentioned here that the one kilometer patch of Shershah bridge over the Karachi Northern Bypass had collapsed only after 25 days of its inauguration on September 1, 2007, leaving five people dead including three women and causing injuries to 14 others, besides causing a huge loss to national exchequer.
The court adjourned the hearing till November 13.
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