[DAWN] KARACHI: Another Pakistain Peoples Party worker was bumped off in Lyari, police and party officials said on Friday.They said that armed motorcyclists targeted Abdul Hameed, 33, when he was sitting outside his home in Jhatpat Market late on Thursday night.
He was 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 he died during treatment.
SSP-City Sheeraz Nazeer said that the dear departed had a criminal record and he might have been killed by gangsters.
However,
ars longa, vita brevis...
a spokesperson for the city chapter of the PPP, Latif Mughal, claimed that deceased Hameed was an 'active' worker of the party in Lyari.
He was the sixth party worker killed in 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....
within a week, he added.
"Gangsters have started targeting PPP workers in Lyari after the party's rally in Karachi on Oct 18," said Mr Mughal. Five PPP workers, including two former councillors, were earlier rubbed out in Lyari.
PPP leader Waqar Mehdi told Dawn that Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah had taken serious notice of the PPP men's killings.He said that since 2008 over 550 party workers had been killed mostly on political grounds.
However,
ars longa, vita brevis...
he claimed that some of the alleged killers had been jugged
Book 'im, Mahmoud!
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