Karachi Suicide attack SHO Shafeeq Tanoli killed

[Parul]

Rest In Peace!

 

[Jazzbot]

Dude you were a gentleman Member of PDF but now you are converting into retarded PTIan ... And it is very sad indeed ......

Whatever you say sir, I just treat specific member according to their own standard. He was posting crap, if you'll read his post you'll understand why I replied to him in that way.

 

[pak-marine]

Another law enforcer gone
By Editorial
Published: April 26, 2014

Police officers and relatives of SHO Shafiq Tanoli offering his funeral prayers. PHOTO: ONLINE

Even though Shafiq Tanoli did not occupy any high ranks in the police department, the operations he led and the criminals he was pursuing made him ‘dangerous’ for those hell bent on worsening the situation in Karachi. This is, perhaps, the reason why several groups were after his life. He survived attack no less than seven times but the eighth attack on April 24 proved fatal.

The attack on Tanoli did not come as a surprise as he had made several enemies in his line of work. In fact, three petitions accusing him of kidnapping innocent citizens and killing them ‘extrajudiciously’ were being heard at the Sindh High Court at the time a powerful bomb killed him. As a police officer, Tanoli’s actions were questioned time and again. He was suspended a few weeks ago after he carried out a raid in Sea View, Clifton, on the house of an allegedly ‘powerful’ person. But there was more to the man as he bravely pursued political activists, gangsters, militants and the likes. In the Wali Babar case, it was Tanoli who rounded up all the suspects and even killed one of them. The police department needs to make sure the cases he was pursuing are carried forward so that his work is not wasted. The department also needs to ensure that his wife and children are taken care of. They should be given some financial compensation immediately as well as a stipend until his children are old enough to support the family. Above all, the family must be given closure by arresting the criminals who took him down.

The initial investigations claimed that the same group which attacked Tanoli a few months ago is behind the latest attack. If that is so, then the investigations into the previous attack need to be revisited. There is also a need to look into the cases he was pursuing and the circumstances around his recent suspension. All angles must be analysed and no leads should be left unexplored. The city deserves to know who took down its lion.

Published in The Express Tribune, April 26th, 2014.

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[batmannow]

Another law enforcer gone
By Editorial
Published: April 26, 2014

Police officers and relatives of SHO Shafiq Tanoli offering his funeral prayers. PHOTO: ONLINE

Even though Shafiq Tanoli did not occupy any high ranks in the police department, the operations he led and the criminals he was pursuing made him ‘dangerous’ for those hell bent on worsening the situation in Karachi. This is, perhaps, the reason why several groups were after his life. He survived attack no less than seven times but the eighth attack on April 24 proved fatal.

The attack on Tanoli did not come as a surprise as he had made several enemies in his line of work. In fact, three petitions accusing him of kidnapping innocent citizens and killing them ‘extrajudiciously’ were being heard at the Sindh High Court at the time a powerful bomb killed him. As a police officer, Tanoli’s actions were questioned time and again. He was suspended a few weeks ago after he carried out a raid in Sea View, Clifton, on the house of an allegedly ‘powerful’ person. But there was more to the man as he bravely pursued political activists, gangsters, militants and the likes. In the Wali Babar case, it was Tanoli who rounded up all the suspects and even killed one of them. The police department needs to make sure the cases he was pursuing are carried forward so that his work is not wasted. The department also needs to ensure that his wife and children are taken care of. They should be given some financial compensation immediately as well as a stipend until his children are old enough to support the family. Above all, the family must be given closure by arresting the criminals who took him down.

The initial investigations claimed that the same group which attacked Tanoli a few months ago is behind the latest attack. If that is so, then the investigations into the previous attack need to be revisited. There is also a need to look into the cases he was pursuing and the circumstances around his recent suspension. All angles must be analysed and no leads should be left unexplored. The city deserves to know who took down its lion.

Published in The Express Tribune, April 26th, 2014.

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DAMOCRAZY IS THE BEST REVENGE FROM THE NATION, mazzey karo!

 

[pak-marine]

DAMOCRAZY IS THE BEST REVENGE FROM THE NATION, mazzey karo!

Pakistan was never a bed roses where was no democracy .. what we have on our plate is a gift from dictators

 

[Patriots]

good, but you are happy on shafiq tanoli's dead?

by the way this is the first time, I think you, have shown resentment on MQM's alliance with PPP. how is this alliance wrong and not the previous ten alliance and breakups with PPP? you think mqm got less ministries or something else?

Previous alliances were proved wrong ... I think PPP is very incompetent government they can't do anything in correct direction because their intention is just looting and nothing more ... MQM can give their hands without accepting ministries ... Because MQM can't sit on driving seat ... If PPP offers only two ministries i.e. interior ministry and municipal ministry then it can be good decision to join government ... Rest of ministries are only BS ..............

 

[pak-marine]

Tanoli targetted: Man released for want of evidence behind earlier attack, says police
By Faraz Khan
Published: April 26, 2014

"The intelligence agencies had warned Tanoli that Shamzai was plotting to target him again to avenge the killings and arrests of his group members," Special Investigation Unit’s police chief, SP Farooq Awan. PHOTO: SINDH POLICE

KARACHI: The police investigators have revealed that Azizullah Shamzai, the operational chief of a splinter group of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) in Karachi, is behind the deadly attack on police officer Shafiq Tanoli.

Tanoli, an encounter specialist, was killed along with three others in a deadly bomb blast near his house at Pakhtun Chowk in the Old Sabzi Mandi area on Thursday morning. This was the eighth attempt on his life.

Four months ago on December 20, 2013, Tanoli was severely injured in an attack on the same spot and the police investigators revealed that the same group of people is behind both the attacks. Shamzai, the chief operational commander of TTP’s Mohmand Chapter is believed to have masterminded both the attacks.

In September 2013, when the Karachi targeted operation had recently kicked off, Shamzai was apprehended by the Rangers in a routine raid conducted in Orangi Town. The law enforcers had found two hand grenades in his possession for which the police indicted him in an FIR registered under Section ¾ of the Explosives Act and for attempted murder. The police could not, unfortunately, provide sufficient evidence to prove him guilty and he was released on bail. His whereabouts are unknown ever since.

“We had no idea about his true identity as he had provided us with a fake name – Aziz alias Haji Sahib,” the former Pirabad police station’s SHO Abdul Moid had told The Express Tribune in February this year.

The Shamzai group is accused of killing more than 55 police personnel in Karachi. Even after his release, he is believed to have rejoined his group and carried out a bomb attack targeting the police inspector, Tanoli, in Old Sabzi Mandi.

Tanoli was aware of Shamzai’s involvement in the previous attack and had accused the police department of negligence after they let him go.

“The intelligence agencies had also warned Tanoli in a letter that Shamzai was plotting to target him [Tanoli] again to avenge the killings and arrests of his group members,” said Special Investigation Unit’s police chief, SP Farooq Awan, while talking to The Express Tribune.

The case has yet to be registered at the police station.

Accepting responsibility

The TTP Mohmand chapter chief, Omar Khalid Khurasani, had also claimed responsibility of Tanoli’s killing by issuing a statement on Thursday. The police investigators have also conducted raids at the hideouts but they have yet to make any arrests. The same group had also claimed responsibility for the bomb blast that killed SP Chaudhry Aslam Khan.

Published in The Express Tribune, April 26th, 2014.

 

[AmnaR]

All police is HIGHLY corrupt. I wouldnt be surprised if police snitched on other police for money.. Even Tanoli, Ch Aslam etc took millions in bribes!!

 

[Leader]

Previous alliances were proved wrong ... I think PPP is very incompetent government they can't do anything in correct direction because their intention is just looting and nothing more ... MQM can give their hands without accepting ministries ... Because MQM can't sit on driving seat ... If PPP offers only two ministries i.e. interior ministry and municipal ministry then it can be good decision to join government ... Rest of ministries are only BS ..............

which means that MQM joined to do what PPP do.

 

[Multani]

IInspector Shafiq Tanoli killed in Karachi suicide blast
By Web Desk
Published: April 24, 2014
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Police inspector Shafiq Tanoli.

KARACHI: A suicide blast in the Old Sabzi Mandi area of Karachi left four people including police inspector Shafiq Tanoli dead and 15 other people injured, Express News reported on Thursday.

According to initials details, Tanoli’s house was the target of the blast. The police inspector has been targeted at least seven times before.

One of Tanoli’s brothers, Rasheed, told the media that his uncle and cousin were among the deceased as well.

Tanoli’s family members had born the brunt of his work in the past. Tanoli’s younger brother, Naveed, was killed the same day when Tanoli, the then SHO of Supermarket Police Station, had arrested the murderers of Geo News reporter Wali Khan Babar. Tanoli was the investigating officer for the murder case.

The injured in today’s attack, who also include Tanoli’s family members, were taken to local hospitals for medical assistance.

Rescue teams and the police have reached the site of the explosion and a shop was destroyed in the blast as well.

Background

The man, who was always determined to fight violence, joined the police force in 1989 when he was in his early twenties. He was also active during the army operation in the 1990s – a time when officers were scared to mention they were from the police force.

Tanoli had also worked for the CID, and was involved in the arrest of Lyari’s Arshad Pappu, inviting the wrath of his followers. He had been attacked twice in Pak Colony, twice in Mauripur, once each in Liaquatabad, Sachal and Old Sabzi Mandi.

Tanoli means he was from Hazara. May Allah forgive him.