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Karachi violence: 21 killed in firing incidents
Killings took place after an attack on ANP Deputy General Secretary Bashir Jan.
Killings took place after an attack on ANP Deputy General Secretary Bashir Jan. DESIGN: AMIR MIRZA
KARACHI: Twenty-one people have been killed and several have been injured in target killing incidents in Karachi since Thursday night as parts of the city remain tense due to rampant violence.
Wali Khan Babar, a young reporter, was killed after being shot five times near Liaquatabad market on his way home. DIG West Sultan Khawaja has appointed a team of three SSP’s to investigate the journalist’s killing.
A bus in Banaras was fired at, killing six commuters on the spot and two men were killed in separate incidents of firing in Liaquatabad and Banaras metroville, while another man was shot dead by unidentified gunmen in Korangi Chakro.
Late at night in Orangi Town, a man was killed by firing, while the body of an unidentified man was found near Jam Sadiq bridge Friday morning.
Meanwhile leaders from both parties, the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) and the Awami National Party (ANP) have blamed each other for the rise in target killings.
MQM leader Faisal Subzwari said that armed terrorists are on the loose in Karachi, who have the full support of the ANP, and appealed to the government to resolve the situation. He further said that the ANP leadership is giving reckless statements to worsen the situation in the city.
Earlier ANP President Karachi Shahi Syed said that eight of his party workers have been killed in the recent spate of violence. He said that steps have to be taken without any political bias involved to attain peace in Karachi.
Syed said that Karachi needs to be cleansed of all weapons and the army needs to conduct an operation for that.
Updated from print edition (below)
Fresh violence: At least 8 killed in firing incidents
Fresh violence erupted in Karachi late Thursday, with at least eight people killed and over 15 injured in firing incidents in different parts of the metropolis.
The killings took place shortly after an attack on Awami National Party (ANP) Deputy General Secretary Bashir Jan in the Hassan Square area.
Most of the firing incidents took place in parts of Orangi Town, including Banaras, Bukhari Colony, Kati Pahari. One Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) worker Hammad, who was also said to be a relative of MQM leader Shoaib Bukhari, was shot dead in the Liaquatabad area.
Four bodies and eight injured were brought to Abbasi Shaheed Hospital, three bodies and two injured to Civil Hospital Karachi and one body and seven injured to Qatar Hospital.
Law enforcement agencies were put on high alert following the incidents.
Published in The Express Tribune, January 14th, 2011.
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Violence in Karachi is, in fact, gaining momentum, but I wonder as to what the law-enforcement agencies are doing over there. What if now the government has constituted a committee comprising three SSPs headed by DIG when the young journalist was shot dead in front of the Police Station and SSP’s office in Liaqatabad Town. What a shame…! I would have resigned I were the SSP with responsibility of providing security to the citizens rather than sitting at home or patrolling in less dangerous areas of the Town. Bottom line is no one is taking their job seriously and honestly.Recommend
Karachi looks like a war zone.Recommend
@Barkatullah Marwat
very well said, and totaly agreed to your words. everyone is behind saving their jobs and people are left in the hands of criminals.
everyone knows who is behind all these killings, but they have to save their seats.
these people will again select them in next elections. people deserves the rulers as they are.Recommend
Stop this madness. I feel army should step in and clean Karachi of all arms once and for all.We as a nation cannot progress with this senseless killings.This is against teachings of our great religion IslamRecommend
All the ones who call themselves as ‘Certain % stakeholders’ of this city are responsible for all this. This supposedly ‘secular’ coalition in Sindh meant to be a catalyst for peace has failed miserably. Some 1500 or so have lost their lives since 2008 elections.
No one can be exonerated, no one can be scapegoated. Everyone is responsible.Recommend
ANP leader injured, just injured and 15 killed….Recommend
Now people should realize who is responsible behind the henious crime. They are those who ruined the whole region and bought violence and terror.Recommend
Stop calling army, it has failed miserably whatever it does
No waepon is produced in Karachi, its always smuggled into Karachi from interior Sindh, Balochistan and KPK.Recommend
Taliban is not sleeping in the North |Wazirstan, its operating right in the heart of KHI. Does Army Chief waiting OBAMA orders to move Army into KHI?Recommend
@Shamsi Ajani
How can you stop this mr., either your people mis-understood the islam, or islam is not peace loving religion, look at your own people who bought Pakistan to your door step,
A country for the religion but not for the people
A country for the Military but not military for a country!
A country for Mullahs/Talibans/sectarians/proxies
A country which dictates democracy against people choice.
the day when your people mixed religion with politics the whole system got collapsed.
Just touch your heart and tell for allah sake, your people following true Islam in your so called “Pure Land”
If the Pure land for the pure muslims then your country would have been Jannath on this earth but see, the way whole world looks at you. the formation of your country has lost its credibilities, every selfserving individuals shilding Islam to save their skin. Can you true muslim raise peaceful voice against uneducated Mullahs to save your country!
Brother, look at your own Maudadi what he preached you people the same thing is happening
I am not really against the formation of Pakistan! infact I am very happy to see you as single state,and whatever is happening in pakistan is not happening in India for god sake.
Look at Maulana Azad what did he said against the formation of Pakistan the samething is happening very true from his word.
Pakistan is in a position in nither service or dessapear type of Identity crisis.
Brother, the 0nly way the pakistan can comeout of this mess is
1. Provide proper education
2. Ban all the mullaism from pakistan
3. Be secular country
4. stop using hatered towards others
5. Look inword rather outword
6. Keep your military to serve the nation not in otherway.
7. Revise whole education system accept the truth that you are not an Arabian decidents.
8. use your military properly to remove radicalism/terroism from your country
definatly you will find Jannat in comming decades otherwise you know what will be the end resultRecommend
As you sow, so shall you reap ! If anybody log on to any pakistani news web site, he will find the entire web site full of violence news. keep up your goodwork my pakistani friends.Recommend
its neither ANP nor MQM and never PPP , so who is doing alllllllllll this ?Recommend
enough is enough we want peace now ” Army please do something for us” we are realy burning if you have kind heart and fear of Allah please do for us.Recommend
the federal govt has two options either to save its fed.govt r the lives of inocent people.but it seems that the govt prefers the 1st option wichich is very unfortunateRecommend
every one knows the criminals but no one can dare to to lay hands them.who will protect inocent.Recommend
Unless you the people of Pakistan retrieve your religion and sanity from the mullas, imams and the rabid TV personnel, who spread hate and incite violence, unless the politicians, police and army wrest the streets away from the mob and unless you unwind yourself from clutches of unwanted and intrusive religious dogma, you will continue to descend into anarchy that will destroy your nation. You are at the precipice! Save your nation!Recommend
Karachi’s melting pot has become more volatile following an influx of Pashtuns from the northwest Khyber-Pakhtoonkhwa province, and the Federally Administered Tribal Areas along the border, since the army started operations against the Pakistan Taliban in 2008 and the United States stepped up drone strikes. According to some estimates, 3.5 million Pashtuns live in Karachi, making it the largest concentration of Pashtuns anywhere on the planet, bigger then Kandahar, the birth place of Original Taliban.Recommend
For the Indians who are not aware of the issues here (politically motivated nothing to do with religion), you should keep your suggestions to your selves. The people of Karachi know who is behind the killings and the bloodshed. This is an issue that’s nothing to do with the Taliban, mullahs etc etc. The main political parties of the city are reponsible for the killings here.Recommend
The army needs to step in to curtail the actions of criminals funded by foreign agents. These are the criminals responsible for the unrest. It’s sad that Naseerulllah Babar passed away this week. He would know how to fix the problem quickly like he did the last time. We should send in the Rangers and demilitarize the city. No group should be allowed to have weapons in Karachi.Recommend
the main parties in Karachi are responsible for these criminals activities…these parties need to be black listed and banned and their leaders should be held responsible for these killings…Recommend
it’s sad that Naseerullah Babar is no longer with us, but i hope his main think tanker’s might help us to tackle this problem…Recommend
War on terror, drone attacks in some areas in Pakistan? How about violence, terror & target killings in Karachi? Why not war on terror in Karachi too? Are the terrorists in Karachi some special breed or any chosen people?Recommend
The government should deal the menace of target killings with an iron hand and irrespective of political affiliation. The Goonda elements has made Karachiites hostage. People fear to go out of their houses as know one knows whether he or she will come back home. Whether People’s Party remain in the government or not, the time has come for Pakistan Army and Rangers to conduct a full scale operation against the Goonda elements to free Karachiites without waiting any more time so that more innocent people should not die any more.Recommend
@Maria
Had Naseerullah Baber been effective, Karachi wouldn’t be in such state again and again. He and army opertaion desperately failed leaving a bad mark in the memories of natives of Karachi.
Urdu speaking people in Karachi do not attribute positive things to Baber, thats enough for the proof of failureRecommend
Gen. Kiyani is not waiting for Americans to ask him to launch operation in the city. In fact he is waiting for Zardari and his deputy, PM, to get the politicians behind the supposed operation. Why should army get into the mess created by our corrupt politicians. Gilani, as the head of govt., must step forward. It is his work and not the work of army chief.Recommend
@vish: Please do not tell Pakistanis to read what Maulana Azad tried to tell the Muslims of India. Pakistanis read only fantasy Islamic history novels of Nasim Hijazi. They do not want to live in the real world. There may be a slim chance that one day they will wake up but by then they would have lost the rest of the less than half the country that remains after 1971. Maulana Azad’s book “India wins freedom” is available in Pakistan but not of much interest to the few educated that choose to live in ignorance.Recommend
I hope indians take a clue and do not turn into nation of gun totting hindu fundamentlist bigots
I dont want to shed light into thier past and it safe to say they are just keeping the mess under the carpet. only time will tell.Recommend
We need an interior minister like Naseer Ullah Babar not like a …. . What type of reconciliation is this, to allow killers to kill innocent people. Shame on you PPP government, Shame on you Mr. Rehman Malik.Recommend
In 48 hours 25 innocent civillians have been killed in Karachi including six passengers of a local bus. The Secular terrorists killed 76 people in Karachi in this new year and more than 1400 in 2010.
No one knows, either he will return to home in evening or not. No one knows from where a bullet will come, from where ‘moderates’ on motor cycles will come out from ‘political offices’ of ‘Liberal’ political parties (MQM and ANP) and open fire on him.
Unless Army is deployed in the city, this Genocide can not be stopped. We have to extradite these Liberal facists from our society and their supporters in Print and Electronic media who support this barbarism by overlooking it completely in their columns and blogs.Recommend
@ Amer
Thanks for the s….up call Amer! it seems india has nothing better to do than poke nose in other’s business and rejoice on other’s plight
Rightly said so!
Its the poltical parties and the killings are done on an agenda basis to break our country and to harm peace in Karachi making the whole country cripple
May Allah bless the soul of those who lost their lives specially the reporter Wali Khan AmeenRecommend
These are turf warss between MQM and ANP- basically about who controls what part of town. Both run Protection rackets. MQM has controlled the city for years and ANP is trying to assert itself and mark its territory. Thrown in land mafia elements.Recommend
All the political parties in Sindh harbour terrorists. Operation must be launched in Karachi to kill all these terrorists in the style of Naseerullah Babar.Recommend
How come everybody in Pakistan carries a gun? Are guns legally sold in Pakistan?Recommend
Gilani calls party leaders – they both blame each other – Rehman Malik will come and blame a third invisible hand – then suddenly the killings will stop. Parties will forever refuse an army operation in Karachi, but will support the same against Taliban. it is a matter of fact that more people have lost their lives in target killings than suicide bombings. But now since the parties are back in coalition, nobody will blame them. Zulfiqar Mirza will not be allowed to speak. Random people travelling in buses, selling peanuts, mending shoes will be killed but nobody will let the democracy derail in the best interest of the country. But if anyone uses foul language against one of the exile leaders, the local leadership will go out of the way and use abusive language on national TV. alas, Naseerullah Babar is no more.Recommend
Every investigating authority knows well who is behind which killings but they are helpless because the hands of law are tied. The culprits have the support of ruling class and ruling class will not have their hands taken off. Karachi is virtually in the hands of few hundred merceneries…..trust me once there is approval of concerete measure by law enforcing agencies….this killings will stop in two days…just need strong will to enforce law…but no one cares…its politics…..poor people will continue to lose their lives …leaving behind crying childern,,,,grieved parrents,,,,sisters and brothers and widows…..but who cares………….lets rule….well done our rulers………let karachi burn…..you need just power.Recommend