[DAWN] A police officer was bumped off in Orangi Town in a targeted attack on Monday evening, officials said.Orangi Town SP Chaudhry Asad Ali said that two gunnies targeted Inspector Mohammed Iqbal, 40, at a hardware shop in MPR Colony.
He said the officer sustained two bullet wounds and was taken to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital where doctors pronounced him dead
He's dead, Jim!
on arrival.
The assailants used a 9mm pistol to carry out the shooting, the police said.
They added that the victim was a resident of MPR Colony. He was posted in the investigation wing of the district west police.
The Orangi SP said that some days back the inspector and certain local people had a brawl in the area. However,
a lie repeated often enough remains a lie...
he added that investigation was still under way.
With the fresh killing, the number of coppers bumped off in the city during the first fortnight of this year rose to six.
Earlier, two coppers were rubbed out in an attack on a police mobile in Orangi Town. Two other coppers deputed for the security of an Awami National Party leader were killed in an attack in Baldia Town. The fifth victim was bumped off by suspected land grabbers in the Sachal area.
Woman among three killed in Lyari
Three people, including a young woman, were rubbed out in parts of 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....
on Monday, police said.
The Storied Baghdad
...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate...
i police said that Gulshan Bibi, 25, was killed by unknown person in the Shah Beg Lane area.
The body 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 her relatives did not allow doctors to carry out a post-mortem examination.
She was a resident of Nayabad, Kalri. It appeared that she was killed on suspicion of being a police 'informer', said Storied Baghdadi SHO Aslam Dahiri. He said that the victim was a close relative of alleged Lyari gangster Zubair alias Wehshi, who was recently killed in an alleged encounter.
The police said the killers did not take away her jewellery.
In the Chakiwara area, two unidentified young men were rubbed out.
The police said that the bodies were shifted to the Civil Hospital Karachi for medico-legal formalities.
There was a dispute between the Kalakot and Napier cop shoppes over jurisdiction.
Lyari SP Shahnawaz said that the victims were in their early-twenties.
They were passing through the Khaliq Juma Hall when two gunnies targeted them from behind and fled.
The young men died before any medical aid could be provided to them, the SP said, adding that the double murder might have linked with the ongoing infighting between rival gangs in Lyari.
Man bumped off
A young man was rubbed out in Gulshan-e-Maymar on Monday, police said.
They said that Abdul Malik, 30, was killed inside his home in Afghan Basti.
Area SHO Samad Khan said that the victim's relatives were trying to bury him but the police got information about the murder and they reached there to stop the burial.
The police took the body in their custody and sent it for a post-mortem examination at the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital. Doctors said that a single bullet hit him in the temple. The SHO said that his wife, Fatima, had allegedly killed him and escaped.