The law-enforcement agencies have sped up action against hard boyz associated with the banned Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain, killing over a dozen hard boyz in recent days, in view of a possible blowback of the ongoing army operation in North
Wazoo.Malir SSP Rao Anwar said police received secret information that some TTP hard boyz were allegedly hiding near Aliabad Goth, off the Superhighway, in Gadap City. As the police party reached there, it came under a gun attack by the myrmidons, he said. He added that police re-enforcement was called in from Malir district. In an ensuing encounter, he said, four hard boyz were killed and arms and ammunition were seized from their custody.
No coppers was hurt in the exchange of fire, he added.
Four TTP suspects killed in Gadap; another rubbed out in Orangi
Gadap City SHO Khan Nawaz said that the encounter took place in Shadi Goth, nera Aliabad, at around 4pm that continued over an hour. He said the dear departed did not look like foreigners.
The SHO added that three suspects was struck down in his prime while the fourth one was incarcerated
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in a maimed condition. He was being taken to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital when he died.
According to a hospital official, one of the dear departed aged 23 years while the three others were in their mid-30s. All sustained multiple bullet wounds. Three TT pistols and one Kalashnikov assault rifle were seized from them, said the police.
Shortly afterwards, another encounter took place in Orangi Town where one suspected myrmidon was killed while three coppers sustained bullet wounds.
One of the maimed coppers was in a critical condition, said SSP West Irfan Baloch.
He said that the police had received information that a gang of hard boyz belonging to the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (Swat) involved in the killing of coppers was allegedly hiding near Banaras Bridge.
Subsequently, the officer said, police contingents reached the spot and an exchange of fire ensued. In the encounter, three coppers were maimed while one suspect was bumped off.
The dear departed was identified as Omair alias Shikari. He was allegedly involved in the killing of seven coppers, including two traffic coppers, in Pirabad and Mominabad recently, said SSP Baloch. A 9mm pistol was seized from him. The maimed coppers were shifted to a private hospital on National Stadium Road where the condition of one of them was said to be critical, the officer said.Three or four other hard boyz managed to escape, he said.
Earlier in the first major targeted operation against suspected hard boyz after the Bloody Karachi
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airport attack, seven suspected hard boyz were killed in hours-long gunbattle in militancy-infested Manghopir during a joint operation by the Rangers and police on June 20. It was followed by the killing of two more suspected hard boyz in Kalakot and Site areas, respectively, the same day.
Two more TTP men were killed in Federal B. Industrial Area by the paramilitary force on June 27.