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| India-Pakistan |
| Protest against 'extrajudicial killing' |
| 2014-08-26 |
| [DAWN] KARACHI: The killing of a 25-year-old man 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.... triggered a protest on Monday by his relatives and other residents who termed it extrajudicial execution by the Rangers. Junaid Azeem, a suspected member of the Abdul Jabbar alias Jhingo gang and wanted in over a dozen criminal cases, was rubbed out by personnel of the paramilitary force in an encounter in Saifi Lane late Sunday night, Baghdadi police said. The area residents said the dear departed had no links with any gang and he was associated with a printing press. Carrying Junaid's coffin, a large number of Lyari residents staged a protest demonstration outside the Baghdadi cop shoppe before marching on the 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... Press Club. The protesters comprising mostly relatives of Junaid Azeem said that he was taken away by the law enforcement agencies from outside his home in Saifi Lane on Aug 14. They said he was brought and killed near his home on Sunday night.They said drug dens were being run by gangsters in the area with the connivance of law-enforcers. However, Caliphornia hasn't yet slid into the ocean, no matter how hard it's tried... innocent youngsters were taken away and later killed in 'fake encounters', he said. They demanded that the authorities take notice of the extrajudicial killings in the old city areas. |
| Posted by:Fred |