Sectarian violence: Confessions of a target killer

Killer admits to murdering 14 people, rocket attacks on CID Civil Line office.

KARACHI: Police officials said that LeJ’s Hafiz Qasim Rasheed alias Ganja confessed to his involvement in the rocket attack on the CID Civil Line office and attack on CID’s DSP Israr Awan in Jamshed Quarters.

He reportedly confessed to killing the following people: Muttahida Qaumi Movement MPA Raza Haider, senior lawyer Syed Waqar Hussain in Jamshed Quarters, two jail superintendents in Gulshan-e-Iqbal, Dr Hassan Haider of the National Hospital in Frere, Dr Syed Abbas Haider in SITE, Dr Anees Jaffery in Jackson, Pasban-e-Aza leader Nayyar Zaidi in Mehmoodabad, Shia scholar Allama Mirza Yousuf Hussain’s son Mirza Khadim Hussain in Rizvia, Chiniot Hospital’s technician in Nazimabad, ISO leader Fayyaz in Orangi Town, Sajadia Scouts’ chief Nayyar Abbas in Mominabad, principal of Polytechnic Institute in Nazimabad Syed Imran Haider Zaidi, and, MQM’s finance secretary for Orangi Town Nehal.

Published in The Express Tribune, October 18^th, 2012.