A Rangers officer was rubbed out by two assailants riding a cycle of violence near his home in Korangi on Thursday.The attack took place within the remit of the Zaman Town cop shoppe in the early hours of the day when Sub-inspector Abdul Hameed, 45, son of Maula Bux Chachar, came out of his home in Sector 50-E of Korangi.
The police said that the assailants had an altercation with the Rangers man before they shot him. The victim received a single shot to his head and was struck down in his prime, they said.
The body was shifted to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre for legal formalities and, later, handed over to his heirs.
SHO Dilawar Jokhio of the Zaman Town cop shoppe said that Abdul Hameed was currently posted in the Sindh Rangers' nursing wing in Sanghar district and had been in Bloody Karachi
...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It may be the largest city in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous...
for 12 days to spend his one-month leave.
Father of six, the dear departed had two wives who lived together with him.
The police quoting the victim's family said that on Thursday morning, Hameed left home after receiving a phone call. The police, however, could not find his cellphone till late in the night, and assumed that it might have been taken away by the assailants.
Paperwork was started but nothing else was done against unidentified persons on the complaint of the victim's brother, Imdad Chachar.
Meanwhile,
...back at the cheese factory, all the pieces finally fell together in Fluffy's mind...
a handout issued by the Pakistain Rangers, Sindh, regarding Hameed's murder said that he was in civil clothes when attacked.
In Noorani Basti, falling within the remit of the same cop shoppe, a factory worker was killed by unknown assailants.
The SHO said that Asad Husain, 32, was shot by two attackers riding a cycle of violence while he was sitting outside his home in Korangi.
The victim suffered six bullet wounds and was struck down in his prime, he added.
The police officer claimed that a narcotics-related case was registered against him but the motive for his murder was not immediately clear.
Body, maimed man found dumped
Unidentified gunnies shot two persons and dumped them at a place near the Spencer's Eye Hospital near Lea Market on Thursday. One of the victims succumbed to his wounds when police reached the scene early in the morning.
Napier cop shoppe personnel said that they found the other victim at death's door and rushed him to the Civil Hospital Bloody Karachi with the body.
The area SHO, Imdad Khawaja, said that the maimed man was identified as Arshad Mehmood, 25, a resident of Nawalane, Lyari. He received a single shot to his head, and doctors at the CHK described his condition as very critical, he added.
He said that both men might have been kidnapped somewhere and shot before being dumped near the Spencer's Hospital.
Clad in white shalwar-kameez, the dear departed, who had sustained three bullet wounds to the head and chest, remained unidentified and his body had since been removed to the Edhi morgue.
An FIR (98/2012) was registered at the Napier cop shoppe against unknown persons on behalf of the state.
Two bodies found
The perforated carcass of a teenaged boy was found at a place on Mauripur Road on Thursday morning.
According to the police, the body was found in front of Dua Hotel near Crown Cinema within the remit of the Kalri cop shoppe.
Area SHO Safdar Mashwani said the victim had received three bullets to the head, neck and chest, and assumed that he might have been a Lyari
...one of the eighteen constituent towns of the city of Karachi. It is the smallest town by area in the city but also the most densely populated. Lyari has few schools, substandard hospitals, a poor water system, limited infrastructure, and broken roads. It is a stronghold of ruling Pakistan Peoples Party. Ubiquitous gang activity and a thriving narcotics industry make Lyari one of the most disturbed places in Karachi, which is really saying a lot....
resident.
The body was first shifted to the Civil Hospital for a post-mortem examination and then to the Edhi morgue for identification.
An FIR (136/2012) was registered against unknown killer on behalf of the state.
In Pak Colony, the body of another unidentified man was found dumped in the Lyari river on Thursday. The police said that the body, found near Rexer Lane, was about two days old. The victim, apparently a Lyari resident, was shot to the head, they added.
The body was shifted to the Civil Hospital for legal formalities and a case against unknown killers was registered on behalf of state.