The rally was entering Karachi from Hyderabad through the highway and reached Ancholi where Shia mourners were carrying the coffin of Mukhtar Ahmed - killed in targeted killing on Sunday - to a graveyard. The groups exchanged fire with each other, leaving three people injured.
An angry mob destroyed a camp at Water Pump chowrangi, near Ancholi, set up to welcome the rally participants. Two funeral buses were also set on fire after the incident.
Police and Rangers arrived at the spot after the incident to take control.
Continual violence in the city has claimed five more lives on Monday, while police have managed to arrest eight suspects and a heavy amount of arms and ammunition.
A doctor working at the Lyari hospital, identified as Dr Nisar, was shot dead in Lee Market.
Earlier during the day, a firing incident in the Memon Goth area of Malir left two people injured, who later succumbed to their injuries.
Unidentified men opened fire on and killed 40-year-old Maulana Muhammad Haroon near Taqwa Mosque in the Sultanabad area of Manghopir. Haroon was the imam of the mosque.
Meanwhile, a young man’s body was recovered from the Iqbal Market vicinity of Orangi Town.
The hands and feet had been tied and police said the deceased was tortured before being killed. The body could not be identified.
In Jamshed Town, police conducted a targeted operation and arrested eight suspects, while a heavy amount of ammunition was recovered from the Patel Para and Baloch Para areas of the city.
Violence in the city has taken 10 lives within the last 24 hours and around 100 in the last week.
Earlier, Inspector General (IG) Sindh Fayyaz Leghari had reportedly issued show cause notices to Deputy Inspector General(s) of three zones of Karachi due to their failure to maintain peace in their areas.
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Mullahs are the biggest threat to Pakistan.
For Shias and Ahmadis , there is only one country i.e iran .Go away , you r not safe here.
@Iftikhar Khan: Well you can be right in a way because there is a possibility that the foreign element is using the tag of TALIBAN/SSP and other organizations to pursue their objectives. For me the only solution to Karachi's problems is ARMY or 'full' authority to MQM who has the 80% of the mandate from the City. Many of you will batter me for putting MQM's name but i feel its the only party which 'owns' Karachi.
@Hairaan, Do you think that all those who are targeted were in rallies? How many ralliese are taken out in last one year?
Ban all religious rallies. That's the only solution. Why can't these gatherings be conducted indoors? These rallies are a source of trouble to say the least.
@Valeed Kidwai sahab, that foriegn hand is SSP/LJ/Taliban. They are killing everyone whether they are Shia or non Shia. Shias seems to be their favorite target but others are not safe from them either They have target lot of sunni mosques around the country and ulema. People like you should wake up before its too late for all of us.
just come to the border and cry with folded hands to india to rejoin india. but i dont think india will take pak back since they think that it was good riddance.
A family that our family personally knew, their son-in-law (Ahlay-Tashi) just 32 years old, was killed on Wednesday in Karachi. All three brothers were travelling in the car. Similarly, If someone remembers Maulana Yousuf Ludhyanwi, he was killed in 1999 - I knew the person because I grew up in that neighbourhood. Where is justice?
Advice to govt. Stop your demoractic fart and get to resolve the issues of Pakistan, if you can't resovle it, leave the govt. plain and simple, and stop blaming others for this mess - as you are the one claiming tall claims.
Secondly, believe me I would not let any person with any authority either from Politics, Authorities (be it coming from Police, Rangers, Army or SC) - will not forgive on Judgement day.
How funny this sounds!!!
'Police and Rangers arrived at the spot after the incident to take control.'Where they are hiding when the incident is taking place or be there in advance where such things are anticipated??? Never mind... they are still useless to be on the spot as we've witnessed them to be asleep on many awful events!
Bullets were fired on rally from mosque of Sipah Shiba .. what sort of reporting is this
@valeed kidwai If its tit for tat killing, i would say the shia side is unspeakably incompetent and impotent. For every dowzen or more of their dead bodies (leave the injured/disabled out rite now), they managed to kill less than one of the SSP/wahabis. When in the world are you going to dig your head out of your hole and realise its not foreigners. Its your pakistani "brothers" who have picked up guns to purify the land of the pure further. The state of denial we live in is pathetic. But it keeps you satisfied and happy in your hole (at least until these barbarians are dome with all the minorities and turn to you to tell you how many sins you are committing). Stay happy. We pakistanis deserve what is coming to us.
The situation will only be controlled with iron hand.
Neither Police can do any thing, nor the Rangers.
What we need another major 'operation clean-up' to clear the mess and to save the precious human lives.
The City of Quaid-e-Azam has been hijacked by the terrorists and target killers and Police, Rangers have become silent spectators.
What else shall I write on this subject?
@Jat: I'm appealing those of us who still can think. No, no one is going to come and help the loonies, there won't be no heavenly intervention either, gods would be perhaps happy if this madness consumes us and they have their peace, so we ourselves are the only hope to save us from ourselves.
@Syed: SSP says ISO and Shia militant groups are killing madrassa boys. Sir what we have to realize is that actually its not either of them responsible. It is the foreign-hand which JAT rightly pointed out. They want us to fight among ourselves while they reap the benefits.
@syed wrote; "The wahabi lashkar e jhangvi sipah sahaba want to wipe out all the shias. that is their only desire in life. rest of the country must unite otherwise the nation is dead"
@syed, they will not stop at shias they will continue on to others as well (they already have) Their training has only tuned them to hate and kill, and they will continue to do so if we don't stop them for good.
What an interesting report...both the processions were fired upon by the terrorists from Taqwa Mosque, it was not a clash between the two rallies...please inform the readers that it was not "unidentified men"...these were the "mujahids" of LeJ
The wahabi lashkar e jhangvi sipah sahaba want to wipe out all the shias. that is their only desire in life. rest of the country must unite otherwise the nation is dead
@Hopeless Pakistani: Dear Sir or Madam, why you are hopeless, there is one solution, hand over home ministry of Sindh to MQM and there will be peace there.
Assets the establishment built up over decades have finally grown strong enough to bite us.
I think this is a communal riot.
@Valeed Kidwai: "A third hand is trying to destabilize Karachi"
Now all you have to do is find Rehman Malik's "foreign hand", and Valeed Kidwai's "third hand"; and then you will be able to clap.
Its a conspiracy and its beyond the three major stakeholders of Karachi. A third hand is trying to destabilize Karachi and the best way is to accomplish that is fueling differences between different political and religious sects. I.e. Muhajir vs Pathan and Shia vs Sunni. It is essential for us to be united in this time of mayhem and identify our real enemies.
@Uza Syed: " Let the inferno of our mutual hatred die down before we are engulfed and consumed by this fire, please."
Uza who are you appealing to and who has to act ? You think someone or something is going to come from somewhere to help you out ?
@JB: So you mean to say angles have revealed this to you.
Two busses which were set on fire was of local transporters and were parked on the road before the incident. They were not funeral buses.
Thos of us who are still safe should not think that we are not among the targets. This fire will eventually burn all of us If we stay quiet and do not stop the ideology of hate of taliban and its open or secret admirers. They are blot on the name of us tolerant sunnis we should completely dissassociate ourselves from them.
@ kanwal
because its busy in bashing MQM for every thing.....
May you all Right winger have a happy and prospering Talibistan Aneem....
Check again ET. According to what I have heard from private Shia news sources is that it were men from banned SSP, who came from Masjid-e-Taqwa, and the aim was to create impression in the Sunnis that It were Shias who fired and the vice versa.
why does this always happen when rangers are threatened to leave karachi?
At what point does Pakistan upgrades from the "failing state" to a "failed state" ? Will there be a tipping point, or a gradual long drawn out event ? Both the scenarios need to be war-gamed.
And all these mini civil wars, when will they coalesce into a nation wide one ? Again, the aftermath of this need to be war-gamed.
This madness must stop before we bleed to death by our own self-inflicted wounds. For God sake, let sanity prevail, control this frenzy. Let the inferno of our mutual hatred die down before we are engulfed and consumed by this fire, please.
These ruling parties, MQM PPP ANP should get a life, for gods sake, have mercy on karachiites
Karachi has some peculiar characteristics which distinguish it from other mega cities the easy and abundant availability of weapons, the control of the state largely by a certain dominant group, the failure of economic growth strategy , regional groups asserting their cultural and nationalist agendas
Do killers in Karachi normally identify themselves before opening fire?
Violence in the city has taken 10 lives within the last 24 hours and around 100 in the last week