The chief of the Baloch Rabita Ittehad Tehreek (BRIT) and a social worker, Anwer Bhaijan, who was shot dead in Kalakot police limits late Friday night was laid to rest in Mewashah graveyard on Saturday. He was 52. Anwer and his friend Iqbal Rasool were returning after attending a funeral when four unidentified men fired on them on Gharib Shah Road in Lyari area. He received three bullets and one of them pierced through his head. Anwer and Iqbal were injured. They were rushed to a hospital where doctors pronounced Anwer dead on arrival. Iqbal was admitted to the hospital where he is out of danger. When the news of Anwer's killing spread in Lyari, the area reverberated with gunfire. On Saturday protesters burnt tyres on roads in Lyari and Old Golimar. Shops and business remained shut in the two localities. Large contingents of the police and Rangers were deployed in Lyari and Old Golimar to prevent any untoward situation during the funeral of Anwer. On the complaint of Iqbal Rasool a case has been registered against four unidentified assailants at Kalakot police station.
| This is kinda becoming a Pak tradition, isn't it? First a fatwah, issued by a holy man affiliated with a "banned" (but still active) sectarian group; then the actual hit, often carried out by the Motorcycles of Doom™; then the riots and the passersby bumped off and/or shot up in the crossfire when the local constabulary arrives on the scene. It's like a kabuki dance, with turbans and live rounds... |