Targeted attacks: Software company owner among four shot dead

Four people were injured as robbers tried to steal prize bonds.


Our Correspondent May 07, 2014
The motive behind the killing has yet to be ascertained. PHOTO: FILE

KARACHI: The owner and the senior marketing manager of a private software company were shot dead in Gulshan-e-Iqbal on Tuesday afternoon. The assailants managed to escape before the police could get to the crime scene.

The incident took place in Block 13-D of Gulshan-e-Iqbal, where four men on two motorcycles started firing at the victim's blue Honda Civic. "They were going towards Liaquat National Hospital for a meeting and had left together from North Nazimabad when the men started following them," said Gulshan-e-Iqbal ASP Dr Fahad Ahmed. "It is clear that this was a target killing. The motive behind the killing has yet to be ascertained."

Both victims were shot multiple times and died on the spot. ASP Ahmed said that Moizullah Khan used to run his own software company in North Nazimabad while, Syed Irtazaul Hassan used to work with him as a senior marketing manager.

The Majlis-e-Wahdat-e-Muslimeen (MWM) condemned the incident. MWM leader Allama Ameen Shaheedi urged people to join hands to show that there are no sectarian tensions between the Sunnis and Shias. "It is a matter of grave concern that the people and Ulema remain silent," he said.

In an unrelated incident, Aziz Buksh, 35, was killed while his 38-year-old brother Bilal was injured in firing near Garden Bridge. Pak Colony police officials said the brothers were taken to Civil Hospital, Karachi, for the autopsy and medical treatment. Initial investigation suggests that the incident took place over a personal enmity.

Four men were injured in firing at Sakhi Hassan Chowrangi, North Nazimabad. The police said that two men on a motorcycle tried to steal prize bonds worth Rs450,000 from a salesman of the prize bond company. DSP Iftikhar Lodhi said that as the men tried to snatch the prize bonds but the security guards and salesmen opened fire at them. After an exchange of fire, two of the security guards, Mohammad Raza and Larasib Khan, and two pedestrians, Ali Raza and Sadiq, were injured. The robbers managed to escape.

In Orangi Town, 35-year-old Muniba was found dead inside her house. The police said that the deceased was the mother of three children and was killed by her husband. They added that the woman's husband had been detained and an investigation was being carried out. No case was registered till the filing of this report.

Busted

The police have arrested a woman and her brother for their alleged involvement in kidnapping of an eight-month-old baby girl on Tuesday. The child was identified as Malaika and was kidnapped by the siblings from the parking lot of a hotel in Saddar on Monday night.

The father of the child, Junaid, filed a complaint with the Artillery Maidan police, the Citizens Police Liaison Committee and registered an FIR about the kidnapping as well. "I brought my daughter to the hotel after reading an advertisement in the newspaper," he said. "They were looking for a toddler to star in a milk advertisement. When we reached the hotel, a woman took my baby and said she was taking her to the director." Soon after, the man was unable to find the woman and his baby.

The police said they managed to locate the suspects after tracking their cellphones. They were arrested in a raid at an apartment in the Artillery Maidan area. The woman said that she had no intention of asking for ransom, however, she had kidnapped the baby to pressurise her in-laws for a rukhsati as they kept delaying the wedding even after the nikah. She was planning to pretend that the baby was her own. The police have registered a case and started the investigation.

In an unrelated incident, the Docks police arrested four suspects, Arsalan, Shakeel, Akhtar Hussain and Rang Elahi, during a raid in Keamari. The police said that the suspects were fake clearing agents and were wanted in several cases. A case was registered against them.


Published in The Express Tribune, May 7th, 2014.

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