Disappearance: Two UN workers go missing in Karachi
Police says no UN agency has contacted them so far.
Police says no UN agency has contacted them so far. PHOTO: FILE
KARACHI:
Two employees of the United Nations went missing under mysterious circumstances from the Gulshan-e-Maymar area of Karachi.
The two UN employees — Farrukh and Sami — had come from Hyderabad to visit a family resort on Thursday and since then are missing.
There was a dispute between the Gulshan-e-Maymar and Sohrab Goth police over jurisdiction. When contacted, Sohrab Goth DSP Qamar Ahmed told The Express Tribune that the Gulshan-e-Maymar police was investigating the case as the incident took place within their jurisdiction.
Gulshan-e-Maymar SHO Mir Samad, however, said that cell phones of the missing persons were last tracked in the Sacchal locality of the District East while further investigation was under way.
SHO Sarmad added that it was still unclear whether the employees belonged to the UNICEF or UNHCR, adding that no one has contacted them so far.
No FIR has been registered so far.
When contacted a UNHCR official said none of their employees were missing.
Separately, unidentified armed motorcyclists shot and killed Dr Akram Shaikh in an act of target killing in the North Nazimabad locality late on Friday night.
DSP Iftikhar Lodhi said that Dr Shaikh was returning home from his clinic when armed motorcyclists shot and killed him for unexplained reasons.
Published in The Express Tribune, April 19th, 2014.
Two employees of the United Nations went missing under mysterious circumstances from the Gulshan-e-Maymar area of Karachi.
The two UN employees — Farrukh and Sami — had come from Hyderabad to visit a family resort on Thursday and since then are missing.
There was a dispute between the Gulshan-e-Maymar and Sohrab Goth police over jurisdiction. When contacted, Sohrab Goth DSP Qamar Ahmed told The Express Tribune that the Gulshan-e-Maymar police was investigating the case as the incident took place within their jurisdiction.
Gulshan-e-Maymar SHO Mir Samad, however, said that cell phones of the missing persons were last tracked in the Sacchal locality of the District East while further investigation was under way.
SHO Sarmad added that it was still unclear whether the employees belonged to the UNICEF or UNHCR, adding that no one has contacted them so far.
No FIR has been registered so far.
When contacted a UNHCR official said none of their employees were missing.
Separately, unidentified armed motorcyclists shot and killed Dr Akram Shaikh in an act of target killing in the North Nazimabad locality late on Friday night.
DSP Iftikhar Lodhi said that Dr Shaikh was returning home from his clinic when armed motorcyclists shot and killed him for unexplained reasons.
Published in The Express Tribune, April 19th, 2014.