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| Rao Anwar escapes attack on life, five assailants killed |
| 2015-05-03 |
| [Dawn] KARACHI: Former SSP Malir Anwar's convoy came under attack in the Malir area of 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 assailants hurled hand grenades and opened fire on the police vehicles. The coppers escaped unhurt, however, five attackers were killed in retaliatory fire, said Anwar. The SSP said he was returning from slain DSP Fateh Muhammad Sangi's residence, who was martyred earlier on Friday, when person or persons unknown, in one car and three cycle of violences, hurled hands grenades and shot up his convoy. Anwar stated that he was heading to inspect the incident site where DSP Sangi was killed when his convoy came under attack. "Police retaliated promptly to the attack, killing five attackers, who appear to be from Taliban," said the SSP. He further said that weapons and hand grenades were recovered from the killed attackers; however, their identities were still unknown. DSP Sangi along with his security guard and driver was rubbed out on Friday morning in a gun attack that police believed was the job of banned Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain. The four attackers riding cycle of violences intercepted the car at 'Bata Mor' in Gulshan-e-Hadeed Phase-I and opened fire on it from three different directions, leaving all the three officials dead on the spot, said Karachi-East SSP Pir Mohammed Shah who had just taken the additional charge of Malir SSP after the late night transfer of SSP Rao Anwar. Sindh Police Inspector General (IG) Ghulam Hyder Jamali had on Thursday transferred Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Rao Anwar from Malir. The provincial police chief said Rao Anwar "misused" his authority following which he has been transferred from Malir district. The police spokesperson said the IG's orders came after Sindh Chief Minister Qaim Ali Shah took serious notice of Rao Anwar's presser earlier in the day, in which he leveled serious allegations against Muttahida Qaumi Movement ...English: United National Movement, generally known as MQM, is the 3rd largest political party and the largest secular political party in Pakistain with particular strength in Sindh. From 1992 to 1999, the MQM was the target of the Pak Army's Operation Cleanup leaving thousands of urdu speaking civilians dead... (MQM). The SSP had claimed that the MQM has links with Indian spy agency RAW, and that the party sent workers to India to get them trained by RAW and eventually use that training to spread terror in Pakistain. "MQM is a terrorist organization and it should be banned," SSP Anwar had argued, while narrating that members of MQM went to India through Indian-held Kashmire, were trained there by RAW and then came back to Pakistain to spread terror. "We have solid evidence to prove these allegations. The two people we incarcerated You have the right to remain silent... have confessed all of this and they are ashamed of their activities. We recovered a large amount of explosives, hand grenades, 9mm pistols from these suspects. We will investigate further during the remand," he had said. |
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