Shahid Hamid murder case: MQM activist confesses to murder of prosecution lawyer

Another suspect reveals MQM worker Raees alias Mama planned Chakra Goth attack

KARACHI: A suspected target killer linked to Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) has confessed killing a prosecution lawyer in the 1997 triple murder case of the then Karachi Electric Supply Company (KESC) managing director and two others.

Azmat, who is currently under the custody of law enforcement agencies, has recorded his statement before a joint investigation team, informed sources told The Express Tribune on Saturday.



“I was associated with a political party’s Burns Road Unit 23 and was tasked to kill the prosecution’s lawyer,” Azmat reportedly said in his confessional statement, adding that he carried out the murder with the help of his three associates in 2001 on Karachi’s Hasrat Mohani Road.

Meanwhile, another suspect, Kashif alias Pasha, has revealed that planning of the Chakra Goth attack was carried out by another MQM activist Raees alias Mama while Zahid alias Mulla, Sharafat alias Bengali, Kamran alias Madhuri and Naeem alias Chitta were involved in it.

“Raees along with other activists carried out the attack to vilify a rival political party while he killed a lawyer and a trader in Korangi area over their refusal to pay extortion,” sources quoted the suspect as saying.



Three policemen had been killed and at least 28 others, including DSP Syed Badar Ali Shah, were injured in the attack on a police vehicle that took place in August 2011.

Witnesses identify murderer of slain KESC MD

Meanwhile, two eyewitnesses of former KESC MD Shahid Hamid’s murder identified Minhaj Qazi alias Asad, a suspected murderer, before a judicial magistrate on Saturday, Express News reported.

Shehnaz Shahid and Omer Shahid, wife and son of the slain official, identified the accused in the court of judicial magistrate (south) Anis Ahmed Abro.

Last year, Saulat Mirza, another MQM activist, was executed in Balochistan’s Mach Jail after he was found involved in the killing of Shahid Hamid.