A man allegedly killed his friend over suspicion he was having an affair with his wife in Block N of North Nazimabad on Wednesday.
The Crime Investigation Department (CID) of Sindh police on Thursday claimed to have arrested three alleged target killers and recovered weapons from their possession.
Three lawyers were shot dead and a fourth was wounded here on Wednesday in what appeared to be a targeted sectarian attack. Gunmen sprayed the lawyers’ car with bullets on Maulana Din Mohammad Wafai Road near Pakistan Chowk when they were going home from City Courts. One of the deceased was a senior lawyer and the others his son and nephew.
A sub-inspector of the Special Investigation Unit (SIU) was gunned down by two attackers in an ambush in the jurisdiction of the Mominabad police station. Asghar Ali Tarar, 50, was killed with an automatic weapon as he was en route for his office in his Suzuki Cultus and was driving past the Hyrdri Imambargah.
Four people were killed in separate incidents in the city on Wednesday. Noor Shah and his cousin, Abdullah, in their mid-thirties, were shot to death by unidentified men riding on a motorcycle in Machchar Colony when the former were on their way home after offering Asr prayers.
An advocate of the Sindh High Court (SHC) was shot dead and his driver injured in an armed attack on new MA Jinnah Road within the limits of Jamshed Quarter police station here on Tuesday.
A Sindh High Court lawyer, who had been receiving death threats allegedly for pursuing the cases of missing persons, was killed on Wednesday evening in a gun attack on his vehicle on New M.A. Jinnah Road.
After a lull of several days, target killings returned to the city on Thursday when two Awami National Party leaders, two activists of the Muttahida Quami Movement and four others were killed in separate incidents.
At least three people were killed in Karachi as target killing have been resurfaced in the city. According to police, two bodies of unknown persons were found from Lee Market area of old city. The two persons were shot dead after being kidnapped and tortured. The bodies have not been identified yet while police shifted the bodies to Civil Hospital for medico-legal procedures.
Karachi, a city of two million population already on the mercy of ethnic violence, sectarian clashes, land mafia, gang war, targeted killings and extortions, is now facing an alarmingly and escalating bank robberies, Daily Times has learnt.
The Anti-Extremism Cell (AEC) of the Crime Investigation Department (CID) claims to have made a major breakthrough against the target killers’ mafia as a notorious target killer was slain in an encounter with the law enforcers while three of his accomplices were taken into custody on Friday.
Most part of the year 2011 had been full of tragedies for the legal fraternity that lost its 20 members in target killing incidents. Most of these victims were either leaving for work or returning home in the evening and among them 15 lawyers were killed in the metropolis, while five were murdered in interior Sindh, according to the outgoing General Secretary Karachi Bar Association Haider Imam Rizvi.
The outgoing year 2011 was worst for journalists working in South Asia as threat from both non-sate and state elements to their safety, especially in the conflict areas, kept taking its toll on them.
Target killings in Gilgit-Baltistan (G-B) have claimed yet another life in the capital city of the mountain region.
A doctor was gunned down on Friday.Dr Shakeel Mahmoob Siddique, 40, suffered bullet wounds when two armed men opened fire at him at the entrance of Shamsi Hospital. The armed men managed to flee the scene, leaving their victim in a pool of blood.
The Frere police on Thursday arrested an alleged target killer involved in kidnapping for ransom and land grabbing cases. The police recovered two pistols and a number of bullets from him.
A central leader of Anjuman-e-Sarfaroshan-e-Islam was gunned down in an apparent incident of targeted killing in the limits of B-Section police station in Latifabad Unit-5 on Thursday morning.
A judicial magistrate on Friday remanded an alleged target killer in police custody in two murder cases till Dec 13.
In two separate raids on Thursday, police arrested four alleged target killers along with a cache of weapons in Karachi and Hyderabad.
Wah Saddar police on Friday claimed to have arrested a target killer and recovered from him weapons.
The law enforcement agencies on Wednesday claimed to have arrested ten suspects, including two target killers, from different areas of the metropolis, recovering weapons from their possession.
The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) on Thursday arrested an activist allegedly involved in killing 30 people in targeted incidents.
Nine suspects, including a commander belonging to the banned Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), were arrested during separate search operations jointly conducted by the police and law-enforcing agencies here on Tuesday, police sources said.
An officer of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) Sindh was gunned down by armed men in Aziz Bhatti.
The decomposed body of a man bearing torture marks was found in the bushes near Nogori on the Super Highway in the Gadap City police limits on Sunday.
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