Key player of Lyari gang war killed
Amjad Lashari was shot dead in an alleged encounter with the police at 4am.
KARACHI:
A key player of the Lyari gang war - Amjad Lashari, was shot dead in an alleged encounter with the police in the Old City area early Sunday morning.
Amjad Lashari was the younger brother of Lyari’s former union council nazim, Rauf Baloch. Both brothers were familiar with the area and its people and had recently started working with Uzair Baloch and his gang. Before this the brother held high ranks in the Ghaffar Zikri group and were working against the Uzair Baloch and Baba Ladla groups.
Lashari and his older brother were accused of masterminding the alleged encounter in which Rehman Dakait was killed. Their homes and hideouts were then allegedly attacked by members of the Peoples Amn Committee (PAC) which was being led by Uzair Baloch and Baba Ladla.
Sources claim that Rauf had assumed he would be able to replace Rehman Dakait as the head of the PAC and his brother would take Baba Ladla’s spot as chief operational commander but, after an intense tug-of-war, the brothers left Lyari.
They spent some time in Dubai but then Rauf was detained by the police and later, released in 2011. Lashari was recently active in Lyari and Old City areas. He used to threaten traders and shopkeepers by sending extortion slips and asking for nearly a million rupees.
The encounter
The alleged encounter where he was killed took place near Sindh Madresatul Islam in Mithadar around 4am in the morning. His body was taken to Civil Hospital, Karachi.
The police believe that Lashari was in the area with the intention to kidnap someone. “They [Lashari and two of his accomplices] were roaming around the area in a Corolla with a Dubai number plate,” said Mithadar SHO Tariq Baig. “He threw a hand grenade at us and tried to kill us but he failed and we succeeded.”
The two men who were with Lashari at the time of the incident managed to escape under a cover of firing. Lashari isn’t the first of his brothers to have been killed this way. So far four of his brothers have died during the Lyari gang war.
Besides being involved in kidnapping and extortion, Lashari was also wanted by the police in 35 murder cases, including the murder of SHO Nasirul Hassan, a prominent officer of the Karachi operation in the 1990s and the Lyari gang war. According to SHO Tariq Baig, they have managed to trace some members of the Lashari group and were trying to arrest them.
Published in The Express Tribune, June 30th, 2014.
A key player of the Lyari gang war - Amjad Lashari, was shot dead in an alleged encounter with the police in the Old City area early Sunday morning.
Amjad Lashari was the younger brother of Lyari’s former union council nazim, Rauf Baloch. Both brothers were familiar with the area and its people and had recently started working with Uzair Baloch and his gang. Before this the brother held high ranks in the Ghaffar Zikri group and were working against the Uzair Baloch and Baba Ladla groups.
Lashari and his older brother were accused of masterminding the alleged encounter in which Rehman Dakait was killed. Their homes and hideouts were then allegedly attacked by members of the Peoples Amn Committee (PAC) which was being led by Uzair Baloch and Baba Ladla.
Sources claim that Rauf had assumed he would be able to replace Rehman Dakait as the head of the PAC and his brother would take Baba Ladla’s spot as chief operational commander but, after an intense tug-of-war, the brothers left Lyari.
They spent some time in Dubai but then Rauf was detained by the police and later, released in 2011. Lashari was recently active in Lyari and Old City areas. He used to threaten traders and shopkeepers by sending extortion slips and asking for nearly a million rupees.
The encounter
The alleged encounter where he was killed took place near Sindh Madresatul Islam in Mithadar around 4am in the morning. His body was taken to Civil Hospital, Karachi.
The police believe that Lashari was in the area with the intention to kidnap someone. “They [Lashari and two of his accomplices] were roaming around the area in a Corolla with a Dubai number plate,” said Mithadar SHO Tariq Baig. “He threw a hand grenade at us and tried to kill us but he failed and we succeeded.”
The two men who were with Lashari at the time of the incident managed to escape under a cover of firing. Lashari isn’t the first of his brothers to have been killed this way. So far four of his brothers have died during the Lyari gang war.
Besides being involved in kidnapping and extortion, Lashari was also wanted by the police in 35 murder cases, including the murder of SHO Nasirul Hassan, a prominent officer of the Karachi operation in the 1990s and the Lyari gang war. According to SHO Tariq Baig, they have managed to trace some members of the Lashari group and were trying to arrest them.
Published in The Express Tribune, June 30th, 2014.