Bodies of three missing persons found in outskirts

Five men, including Sindh govt official, shot dead.

KARACHI: The bodies of three missing persons were found on the outskirts of the city on Friday. This was confirmed to The Express Tribune by Qadeer Baloch also known as Mama Qadeer of the Voice of Baloch Persons.

The police, however, claim that these men were allegedly Lyari gang members. Two of the bodies were found within the limits of the Memon Goth police station while the other one was found within the jurisdiction of the Shah Latif police station. The men found dead in Memon Goth were identified as Rafiq Baloch and Nazeer Baloch. The third man was identified as Pervez Baloch. The police said that three men were killed after they were kidnapped. All three were shot once in the head.

DSP Pervez Shah said that the deceased were gang members allegedly associated with the Dr Shoaib group which works with notorious gangster Baba Ladla. He suspects that the men might have been abducted and killed by members of the Sohail Dada group which operates in Malir and its surrounding areas.

The officer believes the members of Sohail Dada's group might have killed them as revenge for killing their associate, Asifm on Thursday in Malir City.

According to Mama Qadeer, the police is trying to change the nature of the incident. "These men were from Turbat, Balochistan, and were abducted from their hometown more than a year ago," he said. "Our organisation has verified that these men were among the Baloch missing persons and did inform the police but they did not include them in the list." DSP Shah claimed that they did not have any records of these men being missing persons. He said that relatives of the deceased had informed them that they were from Lyari.

Targeted attacks

A Sindh government official and a retailer of smuggled oil were among three men shot dead in the city on Friday.

Forty-three-year-old Nadeem Ahmed Shaikh, a grade-16 officer of the Sindh Secretariat was killed near Shah Faisal No. 2 within the limits of the Shah Faisal Colony police station. The incident took place when the deceased was heading to work on his motorcycle. Police believe that two unidentified men on a motorcycle opened fire at Shaikh. They said that he was shot at 11 times and died on the spot. The body was taken to Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre for the autopsy.

SHO Abdul Khaliq said that the deceased was from Hyderabad and used to live with his family in Shah Faisal Colony. He used to teach the Holy Quran to the elderly in his spare time.

The SHO said that the motive behind the attack was yet to be ascertained. He added that a further investigation was being carried out.

In an unrelated incident, a retailer of smuggled Iranian oil was gunned down at his roadside stall near Qatar Morr in Orangi Town. The deceased was identified as Ghulam Nabi alias Bhaiya, 55, son of Pir Buksh. The police said that he was associated with the Muttahida Qaumi Movement and had escaped an attack on his life last year near Qasba Morr.  SHO Tanvir Murad said that at least two unidentified motorcyclists killed him and also injured a passerby identified as Aqeel.

Separately, a man identified as Ghulam Babar Zaidi was shot dead in Liaquatabad. The police said that the deceased was at a barber shop when assailants opened fire at him on Thursday night. He was taken to Aga Khan University Hospital where he succumbed to his injuries during treatment on Friday.

In Lyari, the body of a 27-year-old scavenger identified as Shah Wali was found within the limits of the Baghdadi police station. The police said that unidentified men shot and killed him after abducting him. The police suspect that he was killed by members of a Lyari gang who suspected that he was sharing information with the police.

A police constable identified as Luftullah,45, was shot dead in Ayub Goth. DSP Qamar Ahmed said that deceased was posted to al-Asif Square police post and was heading home from work when he was shot. An alleged gang member was killed in Lyari within the limits of Kalakot police station. He was identified as Shoaib Hussain Baloch, 28, son of Ghulam Hussain Baloch.

Published in The Express Tribune, August 30^th, 2014.