[Dawn] Four men, said to be supporters of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement...English: United National Movement, generally known as MQM, is the 3rd largest political party and the largest secular political party in Pakistain with particular strength in Sindh. From 1992 to 1999, the MQM was the target of the Pak Army's Operation Cleanup leaving thousands of urdu speaking civilians dead...
, were bumped off after being kidnapped from the 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....
area on Friday, police said.
They said that three of the victims were cousins and meat merchants. The fourth one was a rickshaw driver.
Two meat merchants and the rickshaw driver were rubbed out in Shershah area, while the perforated carcass of third meat merchant was found in the Pak Colony area.
The slain men were MQM supporters and one of them was a brother of a senior activist of MQM's Lyari sector.
The killing came on a day when the MQM was observing a day of mourning against the frequent killing of its party workers and supporters in the city.
The police said that the three meat sellers -- Naveed Akhtar, Shakil Ahmed, and Abdul Khaliq, -- had gone to a slaughterhouse in Meera Naka to buy meat in a rickshaw driven by Nadim Ahmed on Friday morning.
They said that when they were returning home, unidentified gunnies kidnapped them.
Later, the gunnies brought three of the four men to a narrow lane at Akbar Road near Shershah's Pankha Hotel, forced them to stand and fired at them targeting their heads. The gunnies escaped after shooting. The victims were rushed to the Civil Hospital where they were pronounced dead on arrival.
Shershah SHO Khan Mohammad Sheikh said that the three victims were identified as Naveed Akhtar, 20, Shakil Ahmed, 30 and Nadeem Ahmed, 25.
Later in the day, the body of the fourth victim, Abdul Khaliq, 40, was found in a rickshaw in the Mewashah graveyard within the remit of the Pak Colony cop shoppe.