Violence in Karachi

[smali183]

@ All Pakistanis,

First of all we all are Muslim and Pakistani, No Mohajer, No Pathan, no Sindhi, no Panjabi , and other ETC, we all are Pakistani. Brothers.

I hate all those parties which are base on above mention Lisaniyat.

But one thing really wonder me, that if in Karachi there any MQM party Jalsa or raly no any terrorist attack or any other incident on him which is good for innocent People ( Masha Allah) but on the other side any other big event like mentioned above by others so the majority events are effected by terrorism.

 

[Evil Flare]

Why don't we discuss here PPP Aman pasand group gang ? .. they are main culprit here

5000 criminals from lyari are being recruited to police by PPP thugs

 

[Bhairava]

I saw two gangs in above posts - Sohrab Goth and Lyari.

Can any Karachiite show more details on these two .?

 

[Fracker]

I saw two gangs in above posts - Sohrab Goth and Lyari.

Can any Karachiite show more details on these two .?

These are location rather then gang titles, when u meet any karachist, they will call other party supporter a criminal or a terrorist. But fact is that, whether they are ANP, or PPP or MQM. All three parties are carrying gangs in karachi, which spread mess around (some other also has gangs but they can easily be crushed). Target killing is not onesided, it is everyone involve in it. And as all these parties are in power this is why we see no results in peace keeping. How this has been started, we all know that. But every political party is involve in it
keeping it alive.

 

[fawwaxs]

Toll in Karachi bloodshed rises to 33

KARACHI: Unknown gunmen killed four people in different incidents of target killing in Karachi on Wednesday, bringing to 33 the number of people killed in the city in the past 24 hours.

“It is right now difficult to name any groups over involvement in the killings but I can say one thing — this is a conspiracy to destabilise Karachi,” city police chief Fayyaz Leghari told AFP.

“Police have arrested several suspects and they are being interrogated,” Leghari said without disclosing any numbers.

Moreover, a curfew may be imposed in certain neighbourhoods of Karachi, television reports quoted sources as saying.

Search operations are reportedly going to be launched in the city's sensitive areas, reports said.

Commercial centres shut down in the wake of the violence that intensified on Tuesday claiming at least 29 lives.

Police and paramilitary troops patrolled troubled parts of the city, which were deserted with public transport on strike, an AFP reporter said.

Police were searching for attackers in eastern and southern parts of the city where the violence has been concentrated.

The head of the Karachi Transporters' Association said it would have been risky to work on Wednesday, although the stock exchange was functioning.

“It is always very dangerous to bring public transport to the roads on such occasions,” Irshad Bokhari told AFP.

Roads were clear, and shopping centres and educational institutions closed across the teeming city of 20 million, heading a call from the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) on citizens to mourn the deaths.

“Our party gave the call to mourn the deaths of innocent people in the city,” senior MQM official Farooq Sattar told AFP.

Some shops were set on fire in the city’s Malir neighbourhood, where police tried to calm gathering crowds, footage broadcast on private television channels showed.

Several small shops, including fruit and vegetable stalls, were set ablaze in the area. Young men ran onto the streets, and police officers tried to keep the situation under control, the footage showed.

During Tuesday’s violence, at least 12 of the victims were killed in an attack on a scrap market in the city's Shershah area. It was the worst single incident since the latest outbreak of violence erupted on Saturday.

In the Shershah attack, most of those killed were shopkeepers and workers. Nine people were also injured in the incident when about 10 unknown gunmen opened fire.

Sindh Youth Affairs Minister Faisal Sabzwari said almost all victims of the Shershah attack belonged to the Urdu-speaking community. The attack was followed by several incidents of shooting in different areas, leaving several more people dead.

The MQM alleged that elements involved in ‘Lyari gang war’ were involved in the Shershah attack.

In a statement, the MQM coordination committee said there was credible information that Lyari gangsters Baba Ladla, Jabbar Langra, Faisal Pathan, Fahad, Mulla Raju, Shafi Magsi, Lal Mohammad Magsi and Zubair Wehsi had carried out the attack.

It said the attackers had gone to the junk market on motorcycles from Mewashah graveyard, but they were not intercepted by police.

Karachi, a port city of some 20 million, has a long history of political, ethnic and religious strife, but this year has been exceptionally bloody. As of June, around 300 ''targeted killings'' had occurred in the city, roughly twice that of 2009. Many of the killings in Karachi have been linked to gangs allegedly controlled by political parties.

 

[fawwaxs]

 

[pak-marine]

Why don't we discuss here PPP Aman pasand group gang ? .. they are main culprit here

5000 criminals from lyari are being recruited to police by PPP thugs

there are PPP fly boards in Lyari and other PPP areas where there are photos of sindhs interior minister zulfiqar mirza and the so called shaheed rehman dacoit

 

[pak-marine]

These are location rather then gang titles, when u meet any karachist, they will call other party supporter a criminal or a terrorist. But fact is that, whether they are ANP, or PPP or MQM. All three parties are carrying gangs in karachi, which spread mess around (some other also has gangs but they can easily be crushed). Target killing is not onesided, it is everyone involve in it. And as all these parties are in power this is why we see no results in peace keeping. How this has been started, we all know that. But every political party is involve in it
keeping it alive.

fair enough .. all have their gun crew .. no surviving without that .. but one has to understand who is the agreessor and who is defending ? MQM has monopoly in karachi they have no competition in karachi ... PPP (gets sindhi and baluchi vote from Liyari and ANP from sohrab goth and banaras " mostly populated by pushtoons , taliban and afghans... )

It doesnt take a genius to work out who and why some one needs to use a race card as this is their only survival technique !!!! MQM doesnt need that they are solely defending against criminal factors like taliban , alqaida , drug lords , street thugs , docaits, robbers , landlmafia , drug mafia , corrupt to their bones officials from police and other law enforcement agencies ETC ETC ETC

Its easy to understand that karachi serves as a revenue engine for talibanis and al qaida , the last heaven for them is karachi and they will nuetrlise all threats one way or another

 

[Frankenstein]

target killings and ethnic cleansing is not new in pakistan.

these are clashes between parties not ethic cleansing, which is very common in India too, don't act like an ignorant

 

[pak-marine]

Army not being called in Karachi, says PM

Wednesday, 20 Oct, 2010

Toll in Karachi bloodshed rises to 33


ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani on Wednesday said army was not being called in Karachi to restore law and order, and stressed that the political leadership was capable of addressing the issue.

Talking to media representatives, Prime Minister Gilani dismissed remarks by Pakistan People’s Party leader Nabeel Gabol of calling the army to take control of the city. Gilani said that was Gabol’s “personal view”.

“It is not the point of the view of my party,” Gilani said.

He said the army could be called in to assist the civilian government, but added that “the political leadership of the country was capable of containing the situation”.

When asked whether he had any information that the unrest in the city was being manipulated by foreign hands, Gilani said he would respond once he received a detailed report from Interior Minister Rehman Malik.

Condemning the killings in Karachi, Gilani said he had personally spoken to the stakeholders in Karachi and that efforts were underway to bring peace to the city.

To a question regarding the Supreme Court's decision on the 18th Amendment expected tomorrow, Gilani said he hoped for a positive verdict. He further said that the PPP held the court in high esteem. — APP

 

[Humayuncool]

Curfew also cancelled

 

[kak1978]

these are clashes between parties not ethic cleansing, which is very common in India too, don't act like an ignorant

Analysis

Syed Shoaib Hasan
BBC News, Karachi
The attack on Karachi's main car spare parts market on Tuesday means Pakistan's government appears to have utterly failed to establish any sort of order out the chaos currently reigning in the city.

The country's business capital and the engine for its economic growth appears to be inexorably slipping back into the violence of its past.

In the '90s, at least 10,000 people died in political and ethnic violence that ripped through the fabric of Karachi's society.

Order was eventually restored after years of dialogue and reconciliation.

But deadly clashes on 12 May 2007 once again transformed simmering political rivalries into battle fronts.

Hundreds of people have died since then in attacks on political activists. Increasingly though, those being targeted are ordinary civilians as political violence is transformed into ethnic cleansing.

Source:

BBC News - Karachi mayhem continues with 10 more dead

 

[pak-marine]

Curfew also cancelled

it cant do any good any way same is tried in the past for various years every one and every thing has failed

 

[pak-marine]

Hit: Hell breaks loose in Shershah market

Shershah market shops were just calling it a day when all hell broke loose.

KARACHI: Amjad Ali’s teenaged brother is hysterical at the Civil hospital morgue where the crimson body lay. “Where were you when they were killing us,” he screams at a policeman in civvie, who has just arrived to take down the names of the victims of the Shershah market massacre on Tuesday.
There are six bodies in the peculiar smelling morgue. Two more bullet-pocked ones are being shifted from ambulances into the centre. Mohammad Ameen’s relative has just identified one body. He vomits. “I told him not to open his shop today, but he wouldn’t listen,” he cries as a young nephew grips him. Another layer to this tragedy is that the men who owned the shops where the attack took place were mostly relatives.

Deeper into the bowels of the hospital, Mohammad Tahir is pacing the corridor as his older brother battles it out inside the operation theatre. Doctors had told him that two bullets had pierced Saeed’s chest. They are trying to fish one out. “We are trying our best to save him,” a doctor tells Tahir, who pleads to see his brother just incase he dies.
Another one of Tahir’s relatives, Aqib, is also being operated on at the same theatre. “I wish the bullets had hit me,” says Tahir, who witnessed the attack the likes of which Shershah has never seen.
“We were doing business as usual till 5:30 pm when we heard the first gun shots,” he says. “There were at least 30 attackers armed with Klashni and they just fired straight at us shopkeepers and everyone gathered around.”
Also at the hospital is Asif, another eyewitness, who owns a shop at the Shershah scrap market. “No one in the market is affiliated with any political party, be it the MQM, ANP or the PPP, so why were we targeted? What did we do to harm anyone?” he shouts.
More maddening is the fact that there is a police checkpoint just 20 yards away from the market. “Every month we pay extortion money to the police, but still we got no protection and they openly killed our family members,” Tahir says, adding that the murderers came from a street which leads to Lyari.
CHIPPA was the first emergency ambulance service to reach the spot. The workers say that they were at the spot within 10 minutes of the incident. “There was an eerie silence when we reached there. All we could hear was the call of the dead who lay all around the market,” says one worker.
At Medical Legal Officer Dr Karrar Abbasi’s office at Civil hospital, journalists crowd around his table in the hope of catching the names of the victims as he dictates them over the phone to the police. “Amjad Ali wald [father of] Sarfaraz, Mohammad Ameen Tariq, 40, wald Karim Bakhsh, father and son Umair and Zubair, Mohammad Naseem son of Talib Hussain, Irshaan son of Niaz Ahmed and Kashif son of Mohammad Rafi.” At the time of the filing of this report, Civil hospital had received eight bodies from the incident. Two other victims, Anees and Asif Salaamuddin, were at the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital.
By the time MLO Abbasi hangs up the phone, Edhi ambulances rush in three more bodies with gunshot wounds but they are not from Shershah. They are from Radio Pakistan – elsewhere in the city. The victims are unidentified since no identity cards were found in their clothes. “We found these Baloch men with gunshot wounds to their heads behind the street near Radio Pakistan,” says an Edhi worker.
Shershah – at a crossroads
Shershah ‘Kabari’ or scrap market is located at the junction of Lyari and Shershah right at the corner of a road that touches Shershah bridge, also known as Meeranaka bridge. The road is a narrow stretch that links Shershah’s Paracha Chowk to Lyari. As you cross Native Jetty bridge, you enter Agra Taj, Gulbai. The market is located to the right of Paracha Chowk.
On the right side of the road are large godowns and small shops and to the left is the market that is about 2km long. It is bordered by Maula Ali and Chakiwara areas of Lyari, which recently made the headlines for killings.
The demographics of the area are complex. While Pakhtun and Hazara people are dominant in Shershah, the Niazis and Hazarewal are dominant in Rasheedabad, another neighbourhood of the area. Urdu-speaking people are in the minority and can be mostly found in the nearby Usmanabad area. Baloch people are dominant in the neighboring Lyari.
What the guards saw
Sixty-four-year-old Taj Muhammad Khan is a security guard, who works in the one of the streets in the market. He was sleeping in a guardroom at the top of one of the buildings when the attack took place. “I heard the sound of fire and suddenly people started shouting,” he says. “When I came out everyone was running.”
Another security guard, Murtaza Khan, 24, was standing in front of a large iron gate that works as an entrance to lane No 7. He says the assailants escaped via Shershah bridge.
With additional reporting by Fawad Shah
Published in The Express Tribune, October 20th, 2010.

 

[faisaljaffery]

Karachi should be handed over to Army for atlest one month and a full scale operation against the militants irrespective of their sect, politcial background or ethinicity, should be carried out and city should be cleaned from illegal weapons..