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door-to-door operations should take place; nobody in Karachi should be allowed to carry water pistols, leave alone big bore automatic weapons and grenades.

problem wont be solved as long as MQMs ANPs PPPs etc. all have members who encourage or turn blind eye to this disgraceful violence. They should all be declared terrorist organizations until they can work together to end these turf battles.

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everybody should look at the pain and grief of these people........and ask, what are these people dying for?

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To kill a snake one has to cut its head , not the tail as it would re grow wonder how can de-weaponising happen in a city without de-weaponising entire country. Its like A BAEL MUJHY MAAR
 
Fresh round of violence: Lyari stunned as 6 funerals emerge from one lane

By Saba Imtiaz
Published: August 19, 2011

Around 30 bodies were brought in to the Edhi Morgue on Thursday. Some bodies have not been claimed as yet. PHOTO:NEFER SEHGAL/EXPRESS
KARACHI: Six biers were shouldered atop heavy hearts from Lyari’s Sangu Lane on Thursday, leaving nothing behind but shrouded widows, grief-maddened fathers, and confused young children amid fading photographs.
It started off like any other fun evening. A group of young men went out to Zainab Market to finish their Eid shopping. Two borrowed Rs1,000 from their older, well-off cousin to buy shoes, stopping first at Kharadar to grab a bite.
Twenty-four hours later, their families were in mourning. The night was spent in a frantic search for the men who had gone off the radar. Then Maula Baksh’s phone rang at 6:30 am. He had been desperately searching for his 27-year-old son Shahnawaz, asking the police and Rangers if they had detained him. The caller was someone from Civil hospital.
Baksh’s son was identified from among the bodies that were found in PECHS in gunny bags. “My son and I were the only earners,” sighs Baksh. Shahnawaz was employed at the Hubco power plant, and barely had any time to go shopping. This was the only free time he had had in a while to venture to the market.
Shahnawaz’s three children *— one-and-a-half-year-old triplets — crowd around their mother and grandmother.
“They have holes in their hearts,” their grandfather says, as he receives more mourners.
Neighbours sang Shahnawaz’s praises. “He was always there to help someone out – if someone was sick, he’d take them to the hospital, he’d run errands… he just went shopping to buy something for his son,” said one woman.
His 18-year-old sister Amna spoke eloquently about her brother, a stark contrast to her deathly silent sister-in-law and wailing mother, who has not slept since her son went missing.
“We do not want Mohajirs to be killed in retaliation for our brother’s death and for their mothers and fathers to feel the pain that we are feeling now,” Amna quietly said. “We just want an end to this bloodshed and for peace in the city. That is all.”
Neighbours amassed around the grieving 25-year-old Naureen Shahnawaz and her three children. “When her son grows up and learns how his father was killed, won’t he want to take up arms?” questioned an angry woman.
The anger – among the women – is not at political parties, but at the government, for failing to take a stand for Lyari’s young men and working to improve security in Karachi.
The deaths of the young men have shocked even old hands at the defunct Peoples Amn Committee who are used to the blood and guns and gore. The mourners question everything, unwilling to understand or accept the senseless killing of six of their own boys.
Bakht Bibi, who lost her 26-year-old son Nadir, says, “It wasn’t like this during [Zulfikar Ali] Bhutto’s time or in Benazir’s time.”
Nadir would always tell her when he left the house. “He would tell me to pray for him.”
On that day, he didn’t.
His six-year-old daughter, Bisma, points to her father’s picture. “Abba hain! Nadir!” When asked where he is, she innocently replies that he has gone for Hajj.
Nadir’s cousin, Irfan, a Lyari resident, was also among the group that had ventured out to Zainab Market. “We had just begun to mourn Irfan’s death when word came that Nadir’s body had been found as well,” says Mohammad Sharif, their cousin who lent them the money to go shopping.
Irfan was planning to move to the Gulf to find work, a promised land of sorts for Lyari’s young Baloch men, who have seen generations move to the UAE and Oman to find work.
All that is left of his dream is his brand-new passport.
Sharif says that as Irfan’s body came in, another man a lane away had just found his son’s body in an Edhi mortuary. He touches his own passport in his pocket. “I cannot wait to leave Karachi and go back to my job in Dubai. This has shocked me beyond belief.”
Published in The Express Tribune, August 19th, 2011.
 
why dont they take this ethnic war to the posh and settled areas of karachi? I mean they can get loads of valuables this way...
 
To kill a snake one has to cut its head , not the tail as it would re grow wonder how can de-weaponising happen in a city without de-weaponising entire country. Its like A BAEL MUJHY MAAR

because Karachi is an urban metropolis; not a barren rural tribal land.....


actually, i wouldnt be opposed to de-weaponizing the entire country either ;)
 
why dont they take this ethnic war to the posh and settled areas of karachi? I mean they can get loads of valuables this way...

because people in those gated communities have police on call, 24/7

as usual, money talks......it also affords you protection.


this is nothing more than the local and fed government failing to provide protection to ALL residents.......but this phenomenon doesnt apply just to Karachi. There are parts of Washington DC which have multiple murders, drug violence and gang activity..........I can attest to that. If you call the police in those areas, they will arive 1 hour later.

set off a firecracker in the posh areas, 5 police cars would arrive in less than 3 minutes.
 
'MQM to put national interest first in rejoining govt'

KARACHI: Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) leader, Raza Haroon on Thursday said that 'terrorists from the Aman committee' were using the latest weapons and their moral had reached a point where they were threatening relations between the PPP and MQM.

Addressing a news conference on the issue of violence in Karachi, Raza Haroon said the fight between terrorists had nothing to do with political parties and the MQM’s decision to join the government would be made with the national interest in mind.

Raza Haroon informed the media that the majority of those kidnapped and killed during the last two days were Urdu speaking and demanded that PPP leaders 'who were supervising these terrorists be stopped immediately'.

Haroon appealed to the international community to use its influence to stop the mass killing being orchestrated against Urdu speakers.

:hitwall: again the shameful lines of mulk aur kaum kaay waasi taar mufad mein!!! followed by "urdu speaking being killed" how is national interest the interest of one ethnic group ONLY!!
 
because people in those gated communities have police on call, 24/7

as usual, money talks......it also affords you protection.


this is nothing more than the local and fed government failing to provide protection to ALL residents.......but this phenomenon doesnt apply just to Karachi. There are parts of Washington DC which have multiple murders, drug violence and gang activity..........I can attest to that. If you call the police in those areas, they will arive 1 hour later.

set off a firecracker in the posh areas, 5 police cars would arrive in less than 3 minutes.

very true, even in NYC and like all over the world such ghettos are found with gangs, in case of Karachi, the political parties are at their back, which makes it complicated. one douche bag is sitting in Malaysia and the other in London, and these fools are fighting in their names...
 
because Karachi is an urban metropolis; not a barren rural tribal land.....


actually, i wouldnt be opposed to de-weaponizing the entire country either ;)

yes De-weaponize entire country we all are up for it finish this menace once it for all ... ! fail to understand whats the hold up!!? its illogical to only disarm khi who are on defence this wont help a thing infact would further increase unrest additionally there is a risk of loosing the city to extremists.
 
this guy haroon sounds like a bumbling fool when he keeps going on and on about 'urdu speakers'

appealing for international help??? really?


what a bunch of self-hating ******** these politicians are......
 
its ramadan!!! and no one is stopping the killing karachi is being run by animals!
 
why dont they take this ethnic war to the posh and settled areas of karachi? I mean they can get loads of valuables this way...

the unrest has reached every where , they wont slaughter them as these people are cash cows, just recently a friend & mrs were driving stopped over by armed men. They dropped the mrs home and ask her to arrange 1 mill by 10pm , if not you know what. Cut it short she arranged the ransom ... those guys called to drop the money at specific destination further released the husband its as easy as that , people are scared so they will pay up this will intensify and reach every where once the money dries up. So far people are buying their way out of trouble
 
Karachi in a daze after another 30 killed

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KARACHI: At least 21 bullet-riddled and tortured bodies stuffed in gunny bags were found in different parts of Karachi on Thursday as more than 30 people were killed in the city on the second day of a renewed wave of violence that police saw blended with an ‘ethnic colour’, taking the two-day death toll to nearly 50.

Thursday’s casualties that emerged as the largest single-day toll in current spree of violence left people in a state of constant fear. Despite measures promised both by the federal and provincial administrations, no credible action from the law enforcers was witnessed.

The trend of brutal incidents that emanated from the city’s south district on Wednesday evening stretched to the west on Thursday and police said victims were kidnapped and tortured before being shot dead. Their bodies were stuffed in gunny bags and dumped at various places.

Most of the victims, police said, were common wage-earners who had been kidnapped mostly on Wednesday evening while returning home from their workplaces. In some cases they were dragged off public transport.

With the latest round of abductions, torture and brutal killings, Lyari and other parts of old Karachi and its adjoining neighbourhoods have remained in grip of extreme ethnic tension. Accusations and counter accusations by various politicalgroups over the past 24 hours clearly suggest that the latest round of killings in old Karachi has very little to do with the ongoing war between Lyari’s criminal gangs.

Eyewitnesses and political observers say ethnic and political rivalries were the dominant factors behind most of the killings over the past three days. They point out that while most of those abducted and gunned down earlier in the week were pre-dominantly Lyari’s local Baloch, including footballers and a former MNA, many of those forcibly taken away and shot dead in overnight violence belonged to the Urdu- speaking community.

Allegations levelled by the PPP-backed Lyari Amn Committee and Muttahida Qaumi Movement against each other confirm that divisions during the current wave of violence in old parts of Karachi are along ethnic lines.

Alleged involvement of some Lyari gangsters in the Haqiqi-led attack on an MQM stronghold in Landhi-Malir area last month, a protest campaign by many traders of Kharadar and adjoining areas against so-called ‘protection money’, and retaliatory action by the extortionist mafia and other affected groups were also said to be factors behind the latest phase of targeted killings.

Saud Mirza, Additional IG of Sindh police, said the violence was triggered by a clash between two criminal gangs in Lyari on Wednesday evening.

“But somehow over the hours it turned into an ethnically motivated affair. We have found that criminal gangs are targeting Urdu-speaking and Baloch common men in their respective areas,” he said. He said the most affected areas were those
adjacent to Lyari and pockets in trans-Lyari, including Kharadar, Meethadar, Pak Colony, Rizvia and Baldia Town, and the law enforcers were all set to launch an operation there to arrest the criminals.

The overnight scattered grenade attacks and intense firing sowed fear in the south district where residents of old city areas and Baldia Town spent a sleepless night.

In a rare admission of failure, a depressed Home Minister Manzoor Hussain Wasan said the government and law-enforcement agencies had not been able to quell violence.

“Today is not a good day for the Sindh government, police and other law-enforcement agencies,” he said while briefing the media on decisions taken at a meeting convened by the chief minister on the law and order situation.

Accompanied by provincial police chief Wajid Ali Durrani, he said: “We are quite aware of the hands behind this killing spree and disturbance and the government is well aware of its responsibility to protect the life and property of people.”He said the fresh bout of killings could be an attempt to sabotage the ongoing reconciliation talks between the Pakistan People’s Party and the MQM in Islamabad.

But the MQM alleged that “certain leaders in the government” wanted to derail the reconciliatory process between the two parties.

“President Asif Ali Zardari wants to promote the process of reconciliation in Pakistan and he wants better relations between the PPP and the MQM. The president must think what benefit the public will get from the reconciliatory process if the killing of innocent citizens continues,” MQM leader Raza Haroon said at a press conference.

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” دہشتگردو ہوشیار“ رحمان بابا کراچی آرہے ہیں


کراچی، شہر قائد میں لاشوں کی نصف سنچری کے بعد ایک بار پھر وفاقی حکومت حرکت میں آگئی ہے اور وزیر اعظم نے وفاقی وزیر داخلہ کو فوری طور پر کراچی پہنچنے کی ہدایت کرتے ہوئے امن کی بحالی کے لیے اقدامات کا حکم دیا ہے۔

واضح رہے کہ شہر میں ایک بار پھر قتل وغارت گری کا بازار گرم ہو گیا ہے۔


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جمعرات, 18 اگست 2011 15:26
کراچی، شہر میں حالیہ پرتشدد واقعات میں ملنے والی 15 سے زائد لاشوں کی جیبوں سے ایک پرچی برآمد ہوئی ہے جس پر تحریر ہے ”کراچی میں کیا چاہتے ہو امن یا جنگ ؟ یا پھر اور لاشیں پھینکیں“ مذکورہ تحریری پرچی کو پولیس نے اعلیٰ حکام تک پہنچا دیا ہے۔

پولیس ذرائع کا کہنا ہے کہ مذکورہ تحریر سے واضح ہورہا ہے کہ گینگ وار میں ملوث ملزمان مزید لاشیں پھینکیں گے۔

واضح رہے کہ گزشتہ روز بھی 5 بلوچ نوجوانوں کی لاشیں ملیں تھیں جس کے بعد جمعرات کو بھی اچانک لاشیں ملنا شروع ہوگئیں۔


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گینگ وار ملزمان نے 40 نوجوانوں کو اغواء کرلیا، مزید لاشیں ملنے کا خدشہ



جمعرات, 18 اگست 2011 15:05
کراچی، گینگ وار میں ملوث ملزمان نے ساﺅتھ کے مختلف علاقوں سے 40 سے زائد نوجوانوں کو اغوا کرلیا۔ جمعرات کو بدترین تشدد زدہ ہاتھ پاﺅں ٹوٹی گلہ کٹی سمیت 22 لاشیں مل گئیں مزید 18 لاشیں ملنے کا خدشہ ہے جبکہ قانون نافذ کرنے والے ادارے بے بس ہوگئے۔

پولیس ذرائع سے ملنے والی اطلاعات کے مطابق جمعرات کو بھی گینگ وار میں ملوث ملزمان نے ساﺅتھ کے مختلف علاقوں چاکیواڑہ، گارڈن، بھیم پورہ، لی مارکیٹ، پاک کالونی سمیت دیگر علاقوں سے نوجوانوں کو اغوا کرلیا تھا۔

پولیس ذرائع کا کہنا ہے کہ اغوا کئے گئے دیگر 18 افراد کی لاشیں بھی ملنے کا خدشہ ہے تاہم قانون نافذ کرنے والے ادارے مکمل بے بس نظرآئے رات گئے مغویوں کے لواحقین نے پولیس کو آگاہ کیا اس کے باوجود پولیس کی طرف سے مذکورہ افراد کو بازیاب کرانے کے لئے کوئی کوشش نہیں کی گئی۔

پولیس ذرائع کا کہنا ہے کہ انہیں اوپر سے ہدایت ہے کہ گینگ وار میں ملوث ملزمان کے خلاف کسی بھی قسم کی کوئی کارروائی نہ کی جائے۔

پولیس ذرائع کا کہنا ہے کہ شیر شاہ پنکھا ہوٹل سے مدثر ولد غیور کو 7C بس سے اتار کر اغوا کیا گیا مغوی سرجانی کا رہائشی اور کباڑی ہے جبکہ سعود آباد ملیر لیاقت مارکیٹ سے محمد اختر ولد پیر محمد کو اغوا کیا گیا ادھر لیاری سے زاہد نامی نوجوان کوا غوا کیا گیا تھا ۔


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We the people of karachi are doomed .:cry:
 
Maybe its time to call the army in? This is getting quite grim, 20-30 people getting killed everyday!

Just out of curiosity, is there one particular ethnic group who is taking all the hits, or people on both sides are being killed?

RIP to the innocents killed.
 

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