Karachi Violence .. Updates & Discussion ..

[Evil Flare]

جمعرات, 18 اگست 2011 17:14
کراچی، متحدہ قومی موومنٹ کی رابطہ کمیٹی کے رکن رضا ہارون نے شہر میں کشیدہ حالات کے پیش نظر ہنگامی پریس کانفرنس کرتے ہوئے حکومت سے مطالبہ کیا ہے کہ اردو بولنے والوں کا قتل عام روکا جائے۔

رضا ہارون نے کہا کہ گینگ وار کو شہر میں پھیلایا جارہا ہے۔ انہوں نے کہا کہ پی پی کے بعض وزراء گینگ وار کی سرپرستی کررہے ہیں۔ انہوں نے کہا کہ شناختی کارڈ دیکھ کر مخصوص لوگوں کو اغواءکیا جارہا ہے۔

انہوں نے شہر کے حالات کو فوری کنٹرول کرنے کا مطالبہ کیا اور جاں بحق افراد کے لواحقین سے اظہار تعزیت کیا۔

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[pak-marine]

I FOUND OUT FROM SOME BODY WHO ARRIVED FROM PAKISTAN, AT BANGKOK AIRPORT,THEY WERE DISCUSSING THAT AMERICAN KIDNAPPING, AND ONE PERSON GIVE THE NUMBER 03239113045 TO THE PERSON IN BANGKOK THAT THIS GUY HAS THAT AMERICAN MAN

Keep your total bakwas with you and stop trying to put some one into trouble

 

[dexter]

This is not good , violence in Karachi is getting worse day by day even use of hand grenades are increased.
These PPP thugs are responsible for all this situation , they are trying to threaten MQM by killing innocent urdu speakers !!!!

 

[Evil Flare]

KARACHI, Aug 17: Five young men from Lyari were found shot dead at different spots in the neighbouring localities of PECHS, Saddar and Garden in the early hours of Wednesday, police said.

Four of the victims were friends and footballers, the official added.

The killings sparked a wave of anger among old city area residents who staged a protest demonstration outside the Chief Minister’s House by taking along the bodies there.

The police said near Tariq Road, three gunny bags containing corpses were spotted — two of them lying abandoned along the walls of a graveyard and the other one in block 2 of the PECHS along Shahrah-i-Quaideen.

The victims were trussed up before being shot dead, the officials said.

“Some area people returning from a mosque, situated near the graveyard, after offering Fajr prayers spotted the bodies and subsequently informed the police about the two suspicious gunny bags,” said Inspector Ejaz Khawaja, SHO of the Ferozabad
police station.

“The police found that two bodies were stuffed in the bags. Then our patrolling team in block 2 of PECHS found a similar bag, which contained yet another body.”

All the three bodies were shifted to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre (JPMC) for medico-legal formalities.

The two bodies found along the wall of a graveyard were later identified as Kamran Bahram and Shah Nawaz, both in their mid-20s, while the third victim was identified as Mohammad Saqib.

“All the three were friends and residents of the same area in Singho Lane of Lyari. They left homes on Tuesday night, had a dinner at a restaurant in the Kharadar area and then went missing,” the SHO added.

The Ferozabad police later registered an FIR (590/2011) under Sections 302 (premeditated murder) and 34 (common intention) of the Pakistan Penal Code against unidentified suspects on a complaint of Imran, the elder brother of Kamran —
one of the three victims.

The misery did not end here as hardly an hour later their fourth friend, Nadil, was found shot dead in the nearby area of Saddar.

The body was found near Electronics Market, said an official at the Preedy police station.

All the four friends had torture marks on their bodies besides a single bullet wound in the head, said a police official.

A few hours later, another young man from Lyari was found shot dead in the Garden area.

An official at the Garden police station said 29-year-old Mir Irfan Baloch had been missing since Tuesday evening.

“He was hit twice in the head and his body was dumped near the old Telephone Exchange. He was a resident of the Meeran Naka area of Lyari,” added the official.

After offering funeral prayers of the four friends — Kamran, Shah Nawaz, Saqib and Nadil — at Sarbazi Muhallah in Sango Lane, the Lyari residents took to the streets against the killings.

The protesters, including women and children, took the bodies in front the Chief Minister’s House where they staged a sit-in, demanding the immediate arrest of culprits.

The hour-long protest affected the flow of vehicular traffic on Dr Ziauddin Ahmed Road and the nearby roads.

While no member of the Sindh cabinet heard the protesters, they dispersed only after a senior Pakistan People’s Party leader assured them of justice. “Lyari is our stronghold and no political party is more concerned about the situation in the area than
the PPP,” said Syed Najmi Alam, the PPP’s Karachi division president.

“We demand that the government take immediate and credible measures to address such concerns before it’s too late.”

 

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KARACHI: A fresh wave of violence gripped Pakistan’s commercial hub of Karachi on Thursday, with reports saying at least 44 people had been killed over two days in gangwars and political disputes, some after being tortured.
Fighting erupted on Wednesday in and around the old districtof Lyari, long a focus of battles between rival gangs and astronghold of President Asif Ali Zardari’s Pakistan People’sParty (PPP).
Former PPP lawmaker Waja Karim Daad was among the dead.
“Most of the killings have resulted from clashes between criminal gangs operating in Lyari and surrounding areas,” a senior police official said.
“It’s not the kind of fighting that we saw last month, this is more of a gang war.”
But police said turf wars between gangs dealing in drugs and extortion rackets were by no means a new development in Lyari.
“These gangs regularly clash and kill members and supporters of rival groups,” the senior official said.
“Many times, innocent people are also targeted in this rivalry. However, many of those killed end up linked to one gang or the other. Some of these gangs do have political support and backing, but still you cannot term this as a political war as such.”
He acknowledged that “a few” of those killed may have been targeted over their ethnic or political affiliation.
A city of more than 18 million, Karachi has a long history of violence, and ethnic, religious and sectarian disputes and political rows can often explode into battles engulfing entire neighbourhoods.
Street thugs and ethnic gangs have been used by political parties as foot soldiers in a turf war in a city which contributes about two-third of Pakistan’s tax revenue and is home to ports, the stock exchange and central bank.

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KARACHI: Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) leader, Raza Haroon on Thursday said that under a deep-rooted conspiracy gang-war was being expanded throughout Karachi.

Addressing a press conference at Azizabad in Karachi, he said terrorists belonging to the Aman committee were affecting political ties between the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) and MQM.

He said these terrorists were using sophisticated weapons against innocent citizens and that the government was not taking action against them.

He said that PPP leaders should stop patronizing the terrorists for the sake of peace in Karachi. He however said the MQM had decided to join the government keeping national interests supreme, adding the fight between terrorists had nothing to do with political parties.

He regretted that the majority of victims of fresh killing spree in Karachi were Urdu speaking. Raza Haroon urged the international community to use its influence to stop the mass killing of innocent people in Karachi.

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KARACHI:
The holy month of Ramazan brings both good news and bad news for businesses in Karachi. Good news because it is the annual season for sales and bad news because the ‘bhatta’ mafia steps up its activities in this month.
Traders and industrialists say that although bhatta, or extortion, is one of the top irritants to businesses throughout the year, the activities of the bhatta mafia increase manifold in Ramazan. This year, however, the extent of its activities has forced traders to protest. Some of them have even gone for complete shutter-down strikes.
There have been many incidents in recent weeks in which the bhatta mafia attacked shops with hand grenades after their owners refused to pay them hefty amounts. In some cases, shop owners were killed in broad daylight.
Apart from the regular bhatta, extortionists also collect Zakat and Fitra in Ramazan from busy business centres, particularly the wholesale and retail centres of old Karachi markets.
Talking to The Express Tribune, All Karachi Tajir Ittehad chairman Atiq Mir said that almost all religious and political groups collected bhatta throughout the year, but their activities surged phenomenally in Ramazan.
“If you are a trader, wholesaler or retailer, you do not need to worry how much you have to pay in Zakat and Fitra. After considering your annual sales carefully, the mafia will itself decide your rate. The more you earn, the more you have to pay,” Mir said.
Normally, Zakat and Fitra collection is between Rs200 and Rs5,000 per shop, he added.
“These people have complete data of businesses’ supply chain, annual sales etc. Whenever they are done with compiling your complete information, they come to you with ‘slips’ and you have to pay what they demand,” he said.
A wholesale association representative, who did not want to be named, said, “The bhatta mafia is now a complete industry. It is a system in which the police are their partner.”
He said that in past years these groups collected Zakat and Fitra in the last week of Ramazan. “But this year, they came in the first week of Ramazan,” he said.
“The worst part is that all these groups have their own targets of bhatta collection. Eventually, traders have to help them meet their targets by paying more,” he said.
Representatives of traders’ associations are convinced that the worst affected markets are in the old city areas like Kharadar, Khajoor Market, Sarafa Bazaar and cloth and grain markets.
These congested areas have the biggest wholesale markets in Pakistan where traders from all over the country come to buy imported and locally manufactured wholesale goods.
Traders say that over 80 per cent of the total bhatta collected in Karachi comes from these centres.
In recent years, Karachi witnessed one of its worst political and ethnic rifts. More than 300 people were killed in July because of violence in the country’s main commercial hub.
“Interestingly, such rifts don’t exist in bhatta-seeking groups,” a trader said, adding that these mafia groups had people from all ethnicities living in Karachi.
“If anyone wants to learn brotherhood and ethnic partnership, he should learn it from this mafia,” he said. “It has people from Urdu-speaking, Pashtu, Sindhi, Baloch and Punjabi communities. Yet they work so efficiently that you cannot believe your eyes.”
However, these groups are not limited to old congested business centres. According to traders, these bhatta groups have now extended their influence in posh areas as well. They had little influence there two years ago, they said.
According to an eyewitness account, a couple of armed young men barged into a superstore in Defence Housing Authority (DHA) Phase 5 recently and took away money from the owner. It was later learned that the amount they snatched was in line with the ‘slips’ which they had distributed a few days ago in the area.
He added that the young men fled the scene with ease despite the fact that a police mobile was standing guard right in front of the store.

 

[Karachiite]

Lyari Baloch gangsters creating havoc again. People's Aman Committee created by Zulfiqar Mirza is really fcking up the whole city. These guys can kill each other in their sh!thole Lyari but they are crossing their limits and moving into areas like Saddar and Clifton now.
And then you have the No go areas of ANP where there's fighting.

 

[pak-marine]

May those unarmed innocent civilians who lost their lives to armed cowards Rest in Peace. And May those s*ums who are killing those exterminate from this planet

 

[Abu Zolfiqar]

Lyari Baloch gangsters creating havoc again. People's Aman Committee created by Zulfiqar Mirza is really fcking up the whole city. These guys can kill each other in their sh!thole Lyari but they are crossing their limits and moving into areas like Saddar and Clifton now.
And then you have the No go areas of ANP where there's fighting.

from your posts, my impression is that you have allowed yourself also to become polarized by the politics of Karachi

dont allow that to happen.....no political party/mafia/gang here has been innocent.

 

[pak-marine]

In non presence of law enforcement the important thing to understand is we are on defence whilst there is a whole group on offence !

 

[Bratva]

One question for Karachiitee, Did you believe MQM is not involved in recent killing spree? A precise answer needed no hanky panky please

 

[Abu Zolfiqar]

no; all 3 warring "factions" are all on offense & offensive defence


and as i said before, residents of Karachi need to wake up and stop killing eachother like animals. Most of this violence is concentrared in the less developed areas.

it's very easy for people sitting in clifton to blame everything on others. Karachi residents collectively share the blame, as do ALL Pakistanis actually.

and the outrage should have taken place a long time ago........not after the body bags starting piling up

 

[Abu Zolfiqar]

One question for Karachiitee, Did you believe MQM is not involved in recent killing spree? A precise answer needed no hanky panky please

Im not a resident of Karachi, sorry to 'butt' in


but MQM is PART of the problem in Karachi. Like the other political parties, they have members or activists who carry and display arms; and discharge them in public. They also have blood on their hands.


it is not acceptable. . .


all this violence --especially during a holy month --- is beyond unacceptable.


the failure on the part of the law enforcement and the local/federal government is beyond unacceptable

 

[fd24]

Im not from Karachi nor do i live thier. However Karachi is in my heart and soul. Its one of Pakistans main features and whilst growing up it used to be one of the centres of the international markets. I pray we gert rid of this disgraceful hostility and start building it back up again to where it belongs!