Slain MPA Sajid Qureshi. PHOTO: FILE
MQM's Sajid Qureshi and his son were shot dead in North Nazimabad on June 21, 2013.
SSP CID Chaudhry Aslam Khan, while addressing a press conference said that the police teams raided Orangi Town’s neighbourhood of Qazafi Chowk on a tip-off and arrested six suspects.
The suspects were identified as Talha Bin Badar alias Wikky, Muhammad Asim alias Capri, Kazim Ali Shah, Muhammad Farhan, Obaidur Rehman and Muhammad Shahab alias Chota.
SSP Khan said that the suspects were affiliated with the Naeem Bukhari group of the LeJ.
One of the suspects, Kazim was a constable in the Sindh police department.
While quoting the confession of the accused, SSP Khan said that they had primarily targeted people belonging to Ahle Tashi community and the MQM.
They had targeted Professor Sibte Jafar Zaidi and Dhaka Coaching Centre CEO Syed Azfar Zaidi.
Professor Jafar was the principal of Liaquatabad College. He was shot dead by unidentified men on March 18 near Liaquatabad College.
Police also recovered three suicide vests, a dozen hand grenades, pistols and other ammunition from the suspects.
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I think its about time that mqm should ask for separation of karachi into a new country as this one will never let us live in peace.
BBC is the only channel which seems far from MQM's anger, and this is too disturbing for thugs
@SK: Yes, you've rightly described and anticpated as well as warned against "a much bigger disaster". I hate to agree with you, but facts won't go away no matter how much we wish or deny. One can just feel the pain and sorrows of those who are threatened simply because of their courage to speak up against the forces that wish to make us refugees one more time. It's a greater tragedy than what our founding fathers had to endure because one can see the designs of making their children refugees in the country of their birth, in the country that their father and their fathers' fathers had helped make. May the gods be on our side and may the wrath of the Ultimate powers be against the evil forces bent upon inflicting a genocide here in our cities and towns.
@TR: BBC reported that Lahore fell in 1965 war with India. Mr. Khan is in England. He has influence there.
@ uza syed
Very well put. There is a sense of de ja vu here. It appears to be 1992 all over again. The gloating of najam sethi, the propping up of pti in Khi, the slew of letters written to london metropolitan police etc.; all links tied to each other. Unfortunately, 1992 ended up radicalizing the bulk of sindhs urban population and any further adventurism by those orchestrating this chain of events will only prove a much bigger disaster.
If that persons are guilty in murder of Sajid Qureshi then must be reached their Master mind.
@Aysha M: BBC won't ! ---- thank you for raising this point, though. The reason I say BBC won't is simple, if you watch their attitude, you know that they are loaded with themselves and carrying someone else agenda. You would expect fairness by a company of BBC's reputation and standing, but unfortunatelt a few of their employees in the name of freedom of journalistic investigation have simple allowed themselves the liberty of chosing sides in a case which is still under investigation. We all can see who is calling shots here, I hate to say that Imran Khan along with his supposedly divorced wife is playing games here. Anyone with an iota of fairness must condemn this abhorable act of malicious propaganda against a political party as important as MQM and its leadership, I see this not just anti-MQM but against a whole people who have been agrieved and feel pushed around and frustrated all along the history of Pakistan. BBC has done no one any service and some more important and responsible thee might wish looking into the neurality and fairness of such propaganda in the name of journalism.
Maybe BBC should reflect on their lazily done programme on MQM and do another one where they can talk about the thousands of mqm workers and leaders who have been murdered by state and state-sponsored forces.
BBC could use this for their follow up show
it is a pity that though Police claims so many arrests of such criminals, not one have been convicted yet....