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| Five-member police team to probe JUI-F office-bearer's murder |
| 2014-11-30 |
| [DAWN] HYDERABAD: IG Police Sindh Ghulam Hyder Jamali on Saturday formed a five member team to investigate the murder of Dr Khalid Mehmood Soomro, general secretary of the Jamaat Ulema-e-Islam ...the political wing of the Pak Taliban... -Fazl (JUI-F) Sindh chapter. The team, which has started its investigation, is headed by DIG Larkana Saeen Rakhio Mirani with DIG Special Branch Sukkur Sharjeel Karim Kharal, SSP Sukkur Tanvir Tunio and SSPs of Shikarpur and Khairpur as members. Soomro was rubbed out in Sukkur early Saturday morning when he was leaving a mosque attached to a madrassah after offering Fajr prayers. Authorities are looking at a number of probabilities relating to Soomro's liquidation. They have recovered six bullet empties and got an eyewitness account claiming there were three to four assailants who arrived in a white car and left in a hurry. "We have got an eyewitness account of a mason who was present in the seminary-cum-mosque," said DIG Mirani, who holds the additional charge of DIG Sukkur Range police as well. According to Mirani, the assailants struck just before the morning Fajr prayers. "Gunmen sprayed Soomro with bullets while prayer was about to start," added Mirani from Larkana. Soomro had addressed a 'Payam-e-Amn' conference in Qasim Bagh Sukkur and had stayed in Jamia Haqania which is an under-construction seminary-cum-mosque located in Gulshan-e-Iqbal Site area. Soomro, who was known for his fiery ...a single two-syllable word carrying connotations of both incoherence and viciousness. A fiery delivery implies an audience of rubes and yokels, preferably forming up into a mob... speeches, had been vocal on issues of Sindh and had worked with nationalist parties and the PPP over issues such as Kalabagh Dam, Greater Thal Canal and missing persons. There were around seven to eight other people who had gathered to offer morning prayers. With serious bullet wounds, Soomro was taken to a nearby private hospital where he was pronounced dead. He's dead, Jim! His family did not allow medico legal officers to conduct post-mortem. "We [the authorities] have not yet been able to find those responsible for the suicide kaboom on our emir, Maulana Fazalur Rehman. Authorities are in a habit of issuing a cyclostyle statement through Twitter and Facebook to condemn something. But in the present case, even such a statement has not been issued," reacted Hafiz Hussain Ahmed, a central leader of JUI-F, who had reached Larkana from Punjab. Funeral proceedings of Soomro will be held in Larkana at his seminary and he will be laid to rest after Maghrib prayers at a nearby space available adjacent to his seminary. Party leaders from across Sindh have started reaching Larkana to offer condolences. |
| Posted by:Fred |