Six more killed on third day of violence | The Nation
KARACHI - The city remained tense on third consecutive day on Thursday witnessing six more killings in different neighbourhoods.
The Awami National Party’s call for observing Thursday as mourning day, after the killing of its worker in an armed attack on Wednesday evening, added to panic in the metropolis. A complete strike was observed. Attendance at offices thinned out as traffic was thrown out of gear.
Police officials suspect that ANP’s Zainullah Khan had been killed over personal enmity in New Karachi Area because he was there to negotiate some issue of Muhammad Khan Afridi. But he got killed. Markets and business centres in the city have been closed down since for the fear of similar violent episodes.
Shooting sprees and arson attacks hit many areas as the news about targeted killing of Zainullah poured in. Over a dozen vehicles were set on fire by unidentified arsonists appearing from within the protesters.
Reports about shooting are still being received from Empress Market, Saddar, Regal Chowk, Hassan Square, Burns Road, Mashriq Centre, Gulistan-e-Jauhar, Baldia Town, Malir, Banaras, Orangi, Qauidabad, Shah Faisal, SITE and Gulistan-e-Jauhar. Firing gunshots, groups of gunmen were still openly roaming on Thursday, killing another six people.
The first killing took place near Metro Cinema, where some miscreants while protesting resorted to aerial firing. A man, 55-year-old Zahid, son of Hakeemul Saeed, received gunshot wounds. He breathed his last at the Civil Hospital Karachi.
In another incident, one Fahadul Samar, son of Noorul Basher, was shot dead in Aligarh Bazaar. The body was shifted to the CHK for medico-legal formalities.
According to police officials, both Zahid and Fahadul Samar were residents of Frontier Colony that fell under the Orangi Town Police Station.
Separately, dead body of a man was recovered from Farooq Colony, Orangi Town No 12. Police officials said that the victims’ hands and legs were tied up with ropes and he had been shot in the temple. The body was shifted to the CHK and later moved to a morgue for identification.
Two more bodies were recovered in Kati Pahari area in the jurisdiction of the Shahrah-e-Noor Jahan Police Station. The victims were identified as 26-year-old Zeeshan, son of Shareef, and Jaleel, 27, son of Ghulam Essa, residents of Jaleelabad block-S. They went missing on Wednesday night. Their hands and legs were tied up with ropes. And they were shot in the head.
The officials further said that Jalil was a barber by profession and Zeeshan was working for a hosiery shop. The officials suspected that they might have been the victims of ethnic violence.
The bodies were shifted to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital (ASH) and later handed over to the heirs. In another incident, unidentified gunmen, travelling on a car, opened indiscriminate fire at a restaurant near Perfume Chowk, killing a restaurant waiter, 24-year-old Sadaqat Shah, son of Karim Shah. Although the culprits fled the crime scene, they were intercepted by rangers personnel. After an exchange of fire, a paramilitary soldier, Ayaz, was wounded but the culprits escaped. The injured is under at the JPMC
