[Dawn] A police sub-inspector, a head constable and a senior 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...
worker were among the five people rubbed out in the city on Thursday, police and party sources said.
Korangi Industrial Area police said SI Ashfaq Ahmed, 49, was posted at the SP-Landhi office located at Drigh Road. He left his home in Landhi's D-4 Area in his car. When he reached near the Brooks roundabout, two men riding a cycle of violence intercepted him.
The police said initially a scuffle broke out between them and the officer hit one of the suspects with his own helmet. However,
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the suspect's other accomplice opened fire on the police officer. SI Ahmed, father of five, sustained three bullet wounds and was taken to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre, where doctors pronounced him dead
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"The murder appears to be a assassination," said KIA police officer Omer Hayat. He said if it were a robbery attempt, the suspects would have taken away Rs85,000 and two cellphones of the police officer.
In another incident, a head constable was rubbed out and an assistant sub-inspector maimed in an attack on a police van in Sohrab Goth, officials said.
They said HC Muhammad Qasim Korai, 44, and ASI Muhammad Pervez, 40, were patrolling in a mobile van in Aqa Khel Basti near Ahsanabad when two gunnies on a cycle of violence rode in front of the van, opened fire on both police officials sitting in the front seat and fled.
HC Korai was hit by two bullets in the chest and face and was taken to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital, where doctors pronounced him dead
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on arrival. ASI Pervez was shifted to the PN Shifa hospital for treatment.
The police said only the two officials were travelling in the mobile van.
Mr Korai, originally hailing from Moro taluka, lived in Khamiso Goth here. Mr Pervez, belonging to Hazara division, lived in Faqira Goth.
DIG-East Captain Tahir Naveed said the police were investigating about the possible motive and identity of the suspects involved in the incident. He said the condition of the maimed ASI was out of danger.
The SP in charge of Gadap, Mohammad Khalid Khan, told Dawn that Aqa Khel rustics hailing from Afghanistan were known as sympathisers of the Taliban had often attacked police in the area.
A senior worker of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement was rubbed out in Jodia Bazaar and two passersby, including a boy, were killed in the subsequent violence, the Kharadar police said. Four passersby also received bullet injuries in the violence, said Kharadar SHO Azam Khan.
"Shakeel aka Shikku was allegedly targeted by 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....
gangsters," said the SDPO of Kharadar, Iftikhar Lodhi.
"The victim lived in Dubai and had come here around a week ago after the death of his father, Israr," Lodhi said. "Shakeel was distributing chits for Fitra at his late father's office on the ground floor of Hasan Centre in Jodia Bazaar when gunnies who came on foot attacked and killed him."
The police officer said that friends who took Shakeel to a hospital in a trader's hi-roof van allegedly resorted to firing ostensibly to force closure of the bazaar and clear the way for them in the densely populated locality.
As a result, a donkey-cart rider sustained a bullet wound in his neck.
Mr Lodhi said Shakeel was a unit-in-charge of the MQM in Jodia Bazaar.
The SHO said that following the killing, gunnies resorted to firing in Jodia Bazaar and Boulton Market, resulting in bullet wounds to six passersby. The maimed were taken to the Civil Hospital Bloody Karachi
...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous...
, where one of them, identified as Sohail Amin, died. The SHO said Amin has gone to the bazaar to make some purchases. He said a 16-year-old Afghan boy also died in the firing. The boy's identity could not be ascertained immediately. The maimed persons were identified as Shoaib, Waqar, Shahid and Hameed.
"There was a political rivalry between the MQM and the banned Peoples Amn Committee in the area," said the Kharadar SHO. Besides, PAC men and Shakeel had fought over some personal matter last year, added Azam Khan.An MQM spokesperson said that 10 to 12 suspects resorted to indiscriminate firing, resulting in the instant death of Shakeel, MQM's joint unit chief of the Ranchhore Line sector's unit 3-B, while another MQM activist, Shoaib, was maimed.
The spokesperson said the suspects also fired and killed a party supporter in Kharadar.
He said that during the previous 24 hours their five workers and supporters were killed in Ranchhore Line, Jodia Bazaar, New Karachi and Gulistan-e-Jauhar. "It shows that the MQM workers are being targeted under an organised plan," said the spokesperson. The party urged the interior minister, Sindh governor and chief minister to take notice of the killings.MQM chief Altaf Hussain condemned Shakeel's killing.