An army man was kidnapped and killed allegedly by gangsters in the crime-infested neighbourhood of Lyari on Thursday.
“Lance Naik Tariq Younus was allegedly kidnapped by gangsters on Wednesday and his body was found dumped near the Old Slaughterhouse area of Lyari on Thursday,” SSP City Shiraz Nazir told The Express Tribune. The victim was a resident of Hazara Colony, Lyari and posted in Sindh Regiment at Hyderabad.
Tariq Younus, who was home on leave, had gone to a nearby market to get his cell phone repaired when he was kidnapped by the alleged operatives of the Baba Ladla Group.
“We have information from many sources that Baba Ladla group’s Sikandar Siku, Lala Orangi and Sohail had kidnapped Younus and they were seen by people at Tannery Road,” the SSP said.
Police had killed a ringleader of the Baba Ladla gang in the area on Wednesday night and the murder of the army man could be in retaliation for the police action, he said. Police and Rangers have begun a search operation in the area following the body’s recovery.
In another incident unidentified armed men shot dead a doctor at Korangi No 1.5.
According to Zaman Town SHO, unidentified assailants came on motorcycle and gunned down Abul Aziz, 42, in his clinic. The police official said the doctor practiced alternative medicine and had shifted his clinic to Korangi from Shah Faisal Colony a few months back.
The Majlis-e-Wahdatul Muslimeen (MWM) has condemned the unabated targeted killings. The spokesman for the party called the incident a failure of the Sindh government and the law enforcement agencies. “Dr Abdul Aziz was a Shia from Gilgit which is why he was targeted,” said the MWM spokesman Ali Ahmer.
Armed men shot and injured a police constable, Mumtaz, and a passer-by in Juna Market. He was having tea at a roadside stall when assailants targeted him and fled unchallenged, said a police official.
Published in The Express Tribune, September 12th, 2014.
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It is intriguing that no serious action is being taken against sudden rise in target killings in Karachi... All trade associations have requested the Prime Minister to conduct Army Operation in Karachi since the politicized Police has failed to maintain peace in the city.
Mr Anwar ,
Please keep you update. Supreme court has given decision that the ethnic group is not responsible .See the judgment my dear . One person died in custody , he was also innocent . You will compensate that family ??? Go supreme court website see the decision . Hakim saeed daughter is alive go and ask ,who is behind . Ok I say the military should do same thing with Criminal of PPP , I mean that ,
Imran Ali & Shabby: I also belong to the particular community, about which you both claimed the 1992 operation took place. The reality is, that operation was not against any particular community, but against the people who created their state within a state. The Urdu Speaking people who did not have any connection with that group's illegal & unlawful activities, were not effected at all. Hakim Saeed was made Governor of Sindh during the operation, who also belonged to the same community. But sadly, he was killed by the criminals of the same ethnics group!!!
1992 , somebody slapped a Rangers officer , due to this operation carried out for one Community and thousands of innocent people killed . Is there will be operation against Criminal of Peoples Party worker ??????
Now what will be the reaction from Rawalpindi?killing of Army man.?....In 1992 there was allegation of kidnapping and tortured of a Army man belonging to an agency ...A massive operation was conducted against a particular community scores of its worker were arrested with extra-judicial killing,many ran for their life,thousands of its workers still missing .The same mindset is still operating during the ongoing Karachi operation....
@rohit950723: Yeah. That's the thing to be outraged about.
Everytime, same photograph is posted..