Two housing societies start a private war

Armed guards of development schemes on Chari Road attack each other

RAWALPINDI:

Two housing societies on Chakri Road have started a private war using armed security guards to attack each other’s ‘positions’.

The owners and employees of the Blue Housing Society and the Abdullah City Housing Society have filed cases against each other, alleging attempts to murder and damaging property.

Chauntra police have booked the security guards of both the housing projects as suspects in the case of using firearms with the intention to kill the opponent, riot and causing loss to the private property.

However, the owners of the housing societies, who employed and deployed the armed guards in the first place, have only been named as abettors. Tahir Aziz filed a complaint with at the Chauntra police station that armed men had attacked the housing project of his brother on Chakri Road named Abdullah City.

Aziz said that he was in Rawalpindi city centre when Sabir Hussain and Naeem told him on the phone that five armed guards of Blue World City including Waheed Ahmed, Tariq Mahmood, Sajjad, Abdul Jalil and an unidentified one trespassed on the premises of Abdullah City and started demolishing the walls of a house.

The complainant alleged that his employees informed him that when they tried to stop the attacking guards, they warned that they had been ordered by Nadeem Ijaz, Naeem Ijaz and Saad Nazir – the owners of Blue World City to demolish residential houses of Abdullah City. The intruders said they would kill anyone who tries to stop them.

Counter case

The Chauntra police station received another complaint from Sawab Gul, an employee of the Blue World City, in which he stated that he and two other security guards of the housing society, Ahmad Shah and Mohammad Naseer Abbasi, were sitting in their camp when unidentified armed men attacked them.

Gul alleged that armed men from Dera Mushtaq Anwar which is under the control of Abdullah City owners Asim Aziz and Tahir Aziz stormed in and opened fire.

Gul said that one of the bullets hit him in the waist and he got injured. The complainant claimed that his co-workers Muhammad Waheed and Shoaibur Rehman told him that they were walking by the Rawalpindi Judicial Complex commonly known as Katchery when they saw Asim Aziz and Tahir Aziz talking to unidentified people. Police have registered the cases and started an investigation.

Published in The Express Tribune, March 21^st, 2021.