Target killings: Retired armyman held for smuggling arms
According to DSP Qureshi, the suspects confessed to their involvement in murder, attempt to murder and arson.
KARACHI:
The Special Investigations Unit (SIU) arrested two alleged target killers and a retired army officer, who is allegedly involved in arms smuggling.
SIU DSP Asghar Usman acted on a tipoff and raided a hideout in Saeedabad where he arrested an arms smuggler. The suspect was identified as Shahid Mahmood, a retired army officer, who had been transporting weapons in an army truck. Four Kalashnikovs, two rifles, ten TT pistols and a huge cache of bullets were seized from his possession. Mahmoood confessed to smuggling arms from Peshawar and the tribal areas to Karachi during the initial interrogation. He also admitted that he had sold illegal weapons to different gangs in interior Sindh and Punjab.
Elsewhere, after an encounter near Kati Pahari, SIU DSP Wasif Qureshi held two suspects, Amjad Saeed and Mohammad Ismail Shah.
According to DSP Qureshi, the suspects confessed to their involvement in murder, attempt to murder and arson. The suspects have been accused of killing 13 people and injuring more than 25 others in various incidents. The victims include Saeed Ghani, Naik Zada, Syed Pasha and two others in January, Sheikh Farid in June, and Abdul Munim and Asia Maqsood in August. They were also allegedly involved in an attack on a mini bus in October 2010 in which Qaiser, Sanobar and Zafar were injured. They are wanted for killing five people, including a six-year-old girl, in January 2011 and in another incident injured Arsalan Sheikh, Qamar and Abu Qasim in firing at a mini bus.
Published in The Express Tribune, February 4th, 2011.
The Special Investigations Unit (SIU) arrested two alleged target killers and a retired army officer, who is allegedly involved in arms smuggling.
SIU DSP Asghar Usman acted on a tipoff and raided a hideout in Saeedabad where he arrested an arms smuggler. The suspect was identified as Shahid Mahmood, a retired army officer, who had been transporting weapons in an army truck. Four Kalashnikovs, two rifles, ten TT pistols and a huge cache of bullets were seized from his possession. Mahmoood confessed to smuggling arms from Peshawar and the tribal areas to Karachi during the initial interrogation. He also admitted that he had sold illegal weapons to different gangs in interior Sindh and Punjab.
Elsewhere, after an encounter near Kati Pahari, SIU DSP Wasif Qureshi held two suspects, Amjad Saeed and Mohammad Ismail Shah.
According to DSP Qureshi, the suspects confessed to their involvement in murder, attempt to murder and arson. The suspects have been accused of killing 13 people and injuring more than 25 others in various incidents. The victims include Saeed Ghani, Naik Zada, Syed Pasha and two others in January, Sheikh Farid in June, and Abdul Munim and Asia Maqsood in August. They were also allegedly involved in an attack on a mini bus in October 2010 in which Qaiser, Sanobar and Zafar were injured. They are wanted for killing five people, including a six-year-old girl, in January 2011 and in another incident injured Arsalan Sheikh, Qamar and Abu Qasim in firing at a mini bus.
Published in The Express Tribune, February 4th, 2011.