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Pakistan to seek target killers’ extradition

Most renegade shooters from Karachi lying low in Sri Lanka, South Africa and India

Abdul Manan August 12, 2015

Most renegade shooters from Karachi lying low in Sri Lanka, South Africa and India. PHOTO: FILE

ISLAMABAD: The government has decided to again approach the countries where Pakistanis accused of being target killers are hiding and ask respective governments to take action against these renegades, The Express Tribune has learnt.

According to reliable sources, shooters working for political parties or criminal gangs were mostly using Sri Lanka, South Africa and India to escape the operation of security forces in Karachi.

Read: Rangers arrest six 'MQM target killers' in Karachi

They said that when the Karachi operation started, the target killers first took refuge in safe houses in rural Sindh and areas close to provincial borders, but when the scope of the operation expanded, these hit-men fled abroad through illegal means.

Sources said that the Gulf countries extradited and expelled the renegade killers, however South Africa and Sri Lanka turned down the requests of the government of Pakistan.

Sources in the federal government said that only 10 per cent target killers of Karachi have been arrested, while almost 90 per cent have fled the city. They said that these ruthless shooters are a national threat particularly for peace in Karachi.

They said that interior ministry and military establishment in briefings to PM Nawaz Sharif stressed on the need to devise a strategy for putting pressure on the countries where target killers from Pakistan were hiding.

Read: First stage of Karachi security operation complete: Rangers

Sources said that PM Nawaz on his return from Belarus will give the go-ahead to the policy to approach Sri Lanka and South Africa for action against target killers and to talk with India on this issue as well.

Published in The Express Tribune, August 12^th, 2015.

COMMENTS (8)

bash gul | 9 years ago | Reply when the scope of the operation expanded, these hit-men fled abroad through illegal means* How can they flee abroad? Where are our security agencies? Where is the FIA, it is now known that people involved in corruption in Sindh are fleeing abroad, their passports are not stamped with the EXIT stamp. They are taken secretly by the VIP lounge to the aircraft. No wonder the persons involved in massive corruption have taken refuge in UAE, UK and Canada.

JSM | 9 years ago | Reply @John: And what will happen when they return?

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troubled | 9 years ago | Reply Are Pakistanis stupid? Why will India hand any one over. The Mumbai mastermind is roaming free and petitioning courts because a movie portrays him in a bad light.

TN | 9 years ago | Reply America uses bounty hunters to get the criminals. Maybe we should use them -- dead or alive. Just get rid of these criminals!

John | 9 years ago | Reply So basically 90% of MQM work force managed to flee from the operations conducted against it and by going after just 10% of MQM, security forces were able to bring down crime by such a huge %.Imagine what will happen when security forces ends up going after each and every target killer of MQM.

Pakistani Sindhi | 9 years ago | Reply

PM Nawaz on his return from Belarus will give the go-ahead to the policy to approach Sri Lanka and South Africa for action against target killers and to talk with India on this issue as well.

Now we should feel the pain of others when they see the perpetrators of the crimes taking refuge on our lands here in Pakistan.

Khurram | 9 years ago | Reply Bring back the fleeing 90% shooters and handover them to military courts.

Raju | 9 years ago | Reply PML-N and current military leasdership deserves a lot of credit on this Karachi operation. First time, all stake hodlers are looking damn serious to bring back peace in Karachi and almost the peace is already visible. If government can bring back these ruthless shooters from SA, UK, Srilanka and Inida, then that will be the much needed last nail in the coffin of political parties behind them.

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