Four MQM men shot dead after being kidnapped
KARACHI, April 19: Four men, said to be supporters of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement, were gunned down after being kidnapped from the Lyari area on Friday, police said.
They said that three of the victims were cousins and meat merchants. The fourth one was a rickshaw driver.
Two meat merchants and the rickshaw driver were shot dead in Shershah area, while the bullet-riddled body of third meat merchant was found in the Pak Colony area.
The slain men were MQM supporters and one of them was a brother of a senior activist of MQMs Lyari sector.
The killing came on a day when the MQM was observing a day of mourning against the frequent killing of its party workers and supporters in the city.
The police said that the three meat sellers Naveed Akhtar, Shakil Ahmed, and Abdul Khaliq, had gone to a slaughterhouse in Meera Naka to buy meat in a rickshaw driven by Nadim Ahmed on Friday morning.
They said that when they were returning home, unidentified armed men kidnapped them.
Later, the armed men brought three of the four men to a narrow lane at Akbar Road near Shershahs Pankha Hotel, forced them to stand and fired at them targeting their heads. The armed men escaped after shooting. The victims were rushed to the Civil Hospital where they were pronounced dead on arrival.
Shershah SHO Khan Mohammad Shaikh said that the three victims were identified as Naveed Akhtar, 20, Shakil Ahmed, 30 and Nadeem Ahmed, 25.
Later in the day, the body of the fourth victim, Abdul Khaliq, 40, was found in a rickshaw in the Mewashah graveyard within the remit of the Pak Colony police station.
Describing it an act of terrorism, the MQM strongly condemned the killing.
A statement issued on Wednesday said that slain Shakeel Ahmed was the elder brother of MQM activist Khalil Ahmed.
Another missing man from Balochistan found dead
The body of a young man, who had gone missing in Gwadar about four months back, was found on the outskirts of the city on Manghopir Road on Friday morning, police said.
They said that body was shifted to the Civil Hospital, where hospital sources said that he was tortured to death.
Manghopir SHO Aslam Joya said that the victim was identified as Tasveer son of Ibrahim with the help of a slip found from the body, which also inscribed with an address of Gwadar.
The victim had gone missing from Gwadar on Dec 24, 2012, the area SHO said, adding that he was among a list of missing persons from Balochistan.
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Gangster killed in Lyari
KARACHI, April 19: A suspected gangster was killed in a shoot-out with Rangers in Lyari on Friday night.
According to a text message sent by Rangers, gangsters opened fire on the Rangers personnel when they entered a locality during a targeted operation in Lyari.
The paramilitary force returned the fire wounding a suspect, Fareed alias Tunda. He was taken to the Civil Hospital where the he died during treatment.
The suspect was said to be a notorious gangster wanted in several criminal cases.
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