KARACHI: The Sindh police arrested 89 men on target killing charges from January 1, 2010 to January 19, 2011. The men were wanted by the police in 254 cases of murder and other heinous crimes.
A Sindh police spokesperson said that 68 of the arrested suspects have been challaned and have already been presented in court while the rest of the cases are still pending. Sixteen of the suspects are currently in police custody while most of them are in jail. At least eight of the accused men have been granted bail, out of which one died of natural causes.
Only two of the suspects on the list issued by the IG Sindh have ‘target killing’ written in their information section. The details of all other accused do not specify whether they were arrested on charges of target killing or in a different murder case.
These suspects also include the nine men accused of killing 14 people in the Shershah scrap market massacre.
The police stations that had the most prominent role in making these arrests include Shahrae Faisal, Pak Colony, Pirabad, Nazimabad, Saudabad, Pakistan Bazaar and Ferozabad police stations. The CID arrested 11 men while the SIU detained 16 of the suspects.
The list released by the Sindh Police is as follows:
Habib Ur Rehman, Maulana Anayatullah Hazarvi, Omar Farooq, Mohammad Zikaria, Sultan alias Couple, Dawood Video Wala, Jamal Abdul Nasir, Tahir Ali alias Topchi, Asim Hussain, Zaheer Ahmed alias Zahira, Imran alias Irfan Lamba, Shariq Nafees alias Sheri, Atif Rasheed alias Ghora, Ikram alias Aakoo, Abdul Mannan, Nasir Qadri, Mohammad Shoaib, Azhar Ali alias Uncle, Abdul Aziz, Anus Bin Haroon, Waseem Ahmed alias Barudi, Mohammad Abdullah alias Taimor, Hafiz Ikhlaq, Mansoor Ahmed, Azbadar Gul, Syed Abu Irfan alias Urfi, Mohammad Ishtiaq alias Suleman, Imran alias Appi, Naseem Haider alias Feron, Asif Rasheed alias Dumba, Rasheed Alias Bangali, Nawaz Khan,Syed Shah, Jameel Cheepa, Waseem Alias Cheeta, Muhammad Umar alias Shahabdullah, Abdullah alias Anwar,Lal Muhammad Magsi, Mohammad Yaseen, Syed Ali Mehdi, Lal Mohammad Magsi, Ghulam Mustafa, Maqbool Hussain alias Maqboola, Doctor Mohammad Zubair , Syed Tanveer Abbas Rizvi alias Jawed, Syed Abrar Rizvi, Mohammad Bilal, Khan Zaman, Ghulam Mohammad Muddasir Bhai, Syed Murtaza Shah and others.
Published in The Express Tribune, January 21st, 2011.
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