Karachi Violence .. Updates & Discussion ..

[macnurv]

This piece is about a month old but after reading it a lot of things becomes clear on why the current disruption started from Kharadar. Its mind numbing to read this, how the people of Pakistan are abandoned by the government. Shame

 

[Evil Flare]

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Karachi violence: 'Day of mourning' being observed, 5 killed in metropolis





KARACHI: Karachi and Interior Sindh are witnessing a shutter down to observe the Muttahida Qaumi Movement’s (MQM) ‘day of mourning’ over violence in the metropolis, Express 24/7 reported on Tuesday.
All markets, educational institutions and gas stations remain closed in Karachi and interior Sindh.
MQM activists clad in black have hoisted black flags on buildings and squares as a sign of mourning. Scenes of protests and tyre-burning were reported from different areas of Hyderabad.
Public transport has been shut down, and the Karachi Industrial Zone, petrol and CNG stations across the city are also closed.
Police and Rangers have been deployed to maintain law and order in the city.
5 killed across Karachi
Five people were killed overnight in separate incidents of firing and torture. The killings take the death toll to 20 since Sunday night.
A man was shot dead at the old vegetable market, while police found a body near Pak Colony. A youth was also killed in Shah Lateef Colony.
Two bodies were found in gunny bags near Qasba Morr and in the Gharibabad area.

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Leave Karachi or face stern action': Govt warns extortionists





KARACHI: The government of Sindh has warned extortionists to leave Karachi or face stern action, Express 24/7 reported on Tuesday.
The announcement was made after a meeting was held between Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah and Interior Minister Rehman Malik at the Chief Minister House in Karachi.
In a joint statement, the interior minister said people’s lives and property will be protected at all cost.
The meeting singled out 25 banned groups, including Lashkar-e-Jhangvi and Sipah-e-Sahaba, and it was declared that they would not be allowed to collect funds at any occasion.
The chief minister said the banned groups will be tried under the anti-terrorism act if they are found guilty of any offence.
A decision on limiting entry into Karachi was also taken, with all buses coming into the city to be thoroughly checked.
Calls for army grow as Karachi week toll hits 101
Politicians, industrialists and citizens stepped up calls Tuesday for the army to intervene to quell violence destabilising Karachi, where more than 100 have been killed in a week.
“We demand the armed forces take over the city, restore law and order and ensure safety to innocent people’s lives,” Khalid Tawab, vice president of the Federation of Pakistan Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FPCCI), told AFP.
“Business activity has been disrupted because of incessant killing. People don’t want to go to market because of risks to life,” he said.
Ethnic and criminal violence blamed on gangs has killed 101 people in the last week, the latest bout in the worst criminal and ethnic violence to hit the city for 16 years.
“At least nine people were killed since Monday evening, so far 101 people have been killed since Wednesday morning,” a senior security official told AFP on condition of anonymity because he was not authorised to speak to media.
Security officials said they had found the bodies of victims who had been kidnapped and tortured, stuffed into sacks and thrown on the streets with notes warning of more violence.
On Tuesday, markets were closed, streets deserted and attendance at offices thin after the MQM called for a “day of mourning” against the killings.
Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani on Monday flew to Karachi and asked the provincial government to restore peace as quickly as possible.
Sharjeel Memon, Sindh provincial information minister, said a “surgical operation” was planned to end the violence.
Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) insists that civilian authorities are capable of controlling the situation.
But members of other political parties are increasingly calling for army intervention, a sensitive issue in a country that has been ruled for more than half its existence by the military.
“We want to see law and order in Karachi improve. Anyone, including the army, who can get results and improve the situation should take control,” Wasay Jaleel, a spokesman for MQM, told AFP.
“We demand the army across the board to restore peace here,” ANP’s provincial chief Shahi Syed told AFP on Tuesday.
People on the streets also expressed dissatisfaction with the ability of the police and the paramilitaries, technically answerable to the interior ministry, to control the situation.
“The armed forces should be deployed in Karachi, because police and paramilitaries have failed to save our lives,” said Khalid Ali, 45, a shopkeeper in the main downtown market area that has seen some violence.
“We feel no enthusiasm for the coming Eid (religious festival). Please, soldiers take the city in their hands and return smiles to our children,” Noshaba Hameed, 37, a schoolteacher, told AFP by telephone from the east.

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Karachi unrest: Baloch insurgents present in Lyari, PM told





KARACHI:
Law-enforcement agencies have revealed that terrorists from an outlawed Baloch insurgent group are present in the troubled Lyari neighbourhood of Karachi and stoking the ongoing violence in the city.
According to sources, Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani was told in a briefing on Monday that the Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA) – which is behind the Balochistan insurgency – has been promised a safe haven in Lyari by ‘some quarters’.
Officials from spy agencies, paramilitary Rangers and police briefed the prime minister on the unabated violence in the financial capital of the country.
Sources quoted the acting director-general of Sindh Rangers as telling the prime minister that his paramilitary force could control the situation within two weeks, if given ‘free hand’ by the political authorities. He sought powers to chase the terrorists and target killers even if they take shelter in the offices of any political or religious party.
The Rangers chief held out a firm assurance that his force could restore peace in the violence-plagued city with the help of police, if given full powers.
However, he added that planning of all operations should be the sole prerogative of his forces.
Officials of the intelligence agencies told the prime minister that they have gathered information about all ‘no-go’ areas in the city. On the basis of this classified data, they said, an operation could be launched against miscreants in the city.
Sources said that the Sindh police chief stood out during the briefing
due to his ‘non-serious attitude’. When asked to brief the meeting on the Karachi situation, he presented a long list of demands to the prime minister. His demands included more armoured and bulletproof vehicles and weapons.
The meeting took notice of the IG police’s ‘non-serious attitude’.
Published in The Express Tribune, August 23rd, 2011.

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Calls for army grow as Karachi week toll hits 101

KARACHI: Pakistani politicians, industrialists and citizens stepped up calls Tuesday for the army to intervene to quell violence destabilising Karachi, where more than 100 have been killed in a week.

“We demand the armed forces take over the city, restore law and order and ensure safety to innocent people’s lives,” Khalid Tawab, vice president of the Federation of Pakistan Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FPCCI), told AFP.

“Business activity has been disrupted because of incessant killing. People don’t want to go to market because of risks to life,” he said.

Ethnic and criminal violence blamed on gangs has killed 101 people in the last week, the latest bout in the worst criminal and ethnic violence to hit Pakistan’s largest city and financial capital for 16 years.

“At least nine people were killed since Monday evening, so far 101 people have been killed since Wednesday morning,” a senior security official told AFP on condition of anonymity because he was not authorised to speak to media.

Security officials said they had found the bodies of victims who had been kidnapped and tortured, stuffed into sacks and thrown on the streets with notes warning of more violence.

Two bodies trussed up in gunny bags, bearing torture marks and gun shots, were found dumped in Pak Colony and at Orangi Town’s Qasba Mor on Tuesday.

Separately, a resident of the Marwari Lane was kidnapped, shot at, and thrown in the Lyari river. He was shifted to the Civil Hospital subsequently.

In another incident, two people were injured when their car came under attack by unknown gunmen in the city’s Gulastan-i-Johar area.

A government official working in the health department confirmed the casualties.

On Tuesday, markets were closed, streets deserted and attendance at offices thin after the MQM called for a “day of mourning” against the killings.

The associations of transporters, wholesale and retail markets and fuel stations on Monday evening announced one by one that they would stay away from regular business on Tuesday, blaming police and security administration for failing to protect their businesses in such a situation.

Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani on Monday flew to Karachi and asked the provincial government to restore peace as quickly as possible.

Sharjeel Memon, Sindh provincial information minister, said a “surgical operation” was planned to end the violence.

The main ruling Pakistan People’s Party (PPP), which was elected in 2008 after nine years of military rule, insists that civilian authorities are capable of controlling the situation.

But members of other political parties are increasingly calling for army intervention, a sensitive issue in a country that has been ruled for more than half its existence by the military.

“We want to see law and order in Karachi improve. Anyone, including the army, who can get results and improve the situation should take control,” Wasay Jaleel, a spokesman for MQM, told AFP.

“We demand the army across the board to restore peace here,” ANP’s provincial chief Shahi Syed told AFP on Tuesday.

People on the streets also expressed dissatisfaction with the ability of the police and the paramilitaries, technically answerable to the interior ministry, to control the situation.

“The armed forces should be deployed in Karachi, because police and paramilitaries have failed to save our lives,” said Khalid Ali, 45, a shopkeeper in the main downtown market area that has seen some violence.

“We feel no enthusiasm for the coming Eid (religious festival). Please, soldiers take the city in their hands and return smiles to our children,” Noshaba Hameed, 37, a schoolteacher, told AFP by telephone from the east.

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Four KWSB men among 12 killed in city violence



KARACHI, : With 12 more killings, fear and terror ruled the city on a sixth consecutive day on Monday as even the presence of Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani in the city also could not help stem the sliding law and order situation.

While the PM was busy presiding over meetings with the provincial government and security authorities to discuss ways to restore peace to the city, armed riders stormed into an office of the Karachi Water Sewerage Board in the Garden area and shot dead four employees.

The episode lasted hardly for five minutes sparked panic and fear in the area.

“It was first half of the day when four armed men on two motorbikes were seen entering the KWSB office situated on Nishtar Road near Masjid-i-Aulia,” said an official at the Garden police station. “A few seconds later, they fired at people busy in their regular work. It appeared that the assailants fired indiscriminately and the people who were close to the attackers were targeted.”

He said that two executive engineers— Anwarullah and Chaudhary Altaf Hussain — died on the spot. A valve man, Arif Usman, and a clerk, Abdul Qadir, also met the same fate. The firing also left another employee wounded and he was shifted to the Civil Hospital Karachi for treatment.

“It’s sheer terrorism and nothing more or less than that,” said Garden SHO Zahid Hussain Soomro. “It would be a little too early to arrive at any conclusion about the motive and the people behind the killings but it does not seem any different from the ongoing wave of violence in the city.”

The bullet-riddled body of a worker of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement, stuffed in a gunny bag, was found on the rooftop of an apartment building in Gulshan-i-Iqbal on Monday, police said.

They said 20-year-old Mehtab Khan was found shot dead on the rooftop of Junaid Plaza in Gulshan’s block 6.

“The victim was an MQM activist and also a close relative of former provincial minister Mohammad Hussain,” said Inspector Shabbir Hussain, the SHO of the Gulshan-i-Iqbal police station. “Surprisingly, he lived in Dawood Terrace, neighboring Junaid Plaza where his body was found. He had been missing since Sunday evening.”

A young man was shot dead in a Korangi locality on Monday, police said.

They said the victim, Naveed Abbas, was hit by a single bullet in Korangi’s Zia Colony in the street also housing the Masoom
Shuhada Imambargah.

“He was shifted to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre where he died during treatment,” said an official at the Korangi police station.

The bullet-riddled body of a young man was found in the Lyari river, police said.

They said the victim, identified as 30-year-old Abdul Kareem, was hit by a single bullet in the head. They body was dumped in the river near the Nafeesabad area within the remit of the PIB Colony police station.

The body of a man, stuffed in a gunny bag, was found in a Landhi area on Monday.

An official at the Sharafi Goth police station said the body was found at an isolated place called Ismail Goth in the outskirts of Landhi Town. The identity of the victim could not be established till late in the night, he added.

Three men were shot dead in separate incidents near Jahangir Road on Monday, police said.

They said that in the first such incident, assailants shot dead a young man in an armed attack and his killing sparked violent protests in the area.

They said 29-year-old Junaid Shakirullah was hit by a bullet in the head and died on the spot. Within an hour of this incident, armed men emerged again in the same area and killed two more persons.

“Two men on a motorbike resorted to indiscriminate firing near a filling station that killed two men. One of them appears to be in his 50s while the other is in his early-20s,” said an official at the Jamshed Quarters police station, adding that the identity of the two victims could not be ascertained.

Police and rescue workers found two badly wounded youngsters near the Zoological Garden on Monday and shifted them to the civil hospital, where one of them died from wounds.

The police said the victims were tortured and hit by bullets.

“We have reports that they were thrown out of a moving vehicle in a wounded condition near the zoo. They were shifted to hospital where one of them died. The second one is still under treatment with dim chances of survival,” said Inspector Ghulam Nabi Bhago, the SHO of the Solider Bazaar police station.

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KESC seeks security for its Korangi staff


KARACHI, Aug 22: The Karachi Electric Supply Company on Monday said the worsening law and order situation in Korangi had badly affected company`s operations and appealed to the authorities concerned to provide security to its repair teams.

The KESC claimed that staff could not operate from the offices of Zaman Town centre and other local area offices because the maintenance trucks and crew could not reach the service centres.

The power utility said that it was trying its best to cope with the situation.

The KESC was operating with skeleton staff due to the worsening law and order situation in the area. Security of the company`s staff was of paramount importance and the power utility said it would not compromise on it.

 

[Evil Flare]

بھتہ خوری کو انسداد دہشتگردی ایکٹ میں شامل کرنے کا فیصلہ



کراچی، شہر قائد میں امن وامان کی صورتحال پر اسلام آباد کے بعد اب وزیراعلیٰ ہاﺅس میں اجلاسوں کا سلسلہ جاری ہے اور منگل کی دوپہر وزیراعلیٰ سندھ اور وفاقی وزیر داخلہ کی زیر صدارت اجلاس ہوا جس میں وزیرداخلہ سندھ، آئی جی سندھ اور دیگر متعلقہ افراد نے شرکت کی۔

اجلاس میں بھتہ خوری کو انسداد دہشتگردی ایکٹ میں شامل کرنے کا فیصلہ کیا گیا جس کے بعد بھتہ خوری دہشت گردی تصور کی جائے گی۔

اجلاس میں رینجرز اور پولیس کو مزید اختیارات دینے اور فوج کو نہ بلانے کا فیصلہ کیا گیا۔ اجلاس میں انٹیلی جنس اداروں میں روابط تیز کرنے کی بھی ہدایت کی گئی۔

 

[pak-marine]

Not surprised. Only a delusional, brain washed, full of **** and idol (Altaf) worshiper like you can give such a response when everyone in Karachi knows these guys belong to MQM. May be I shall refresh your memory by telling some more names like Aftab Commando, Ali Mota, Naeem Shari e.t.c. that were active in 1994-1995.

you want to poke nose , and go $tupid and retard and spew all the garbage except answering the question again failure please point out or else shut it,

 

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Sindhi community in Korangi's Chakra Goth has been left unprotected at the mercy of terrorists. This is the same place where few days ago a police bus was attacked by Madhuri and Bengali.

 

[DV RULES]

بھتہ خوری کو انسداد دہشتگردی ایکٹ میں شامل کرنے کا فیصلہ



کراچی، شہر قائد میں امن وامان کی صورتحال پر اسلام آباد کے بعد اب وزیراعلیٰ ہاﺅس میں اجلاسوں کا سلسلہ جاری ہے اور منگل کی دوپہر وزیراعلیٰ سندھ اور وفاقی وزیر داخلہ کی زیر صدارت اجلاس ہوا جس میں وزیرداخلہ سندھ، آئی جی سندھ اور دیگر متعلقہ افراد نے شرکت کی۔

اجلاس میں بھتہ خوری کو انسداد دہشتگردی ایکٹ میں شامل کرنے کا فیصلہ کیا گیا جس کے بعد بھتہ خوری دہشت گردی تصور کی جائے گی۔

اجلاس میں رینجرز اور پولیس کو مزید اختیارات دینے اور فوج کو نہ بلانے کا فیصلہ کیا گیا۔ اجلاس میں انٹیلی جنس اداروں میں روابط تیز کرنے کی بھی ہدایت کی گئی۔

Good but peace in Karachi will come only when MQM with PPP & ANP will get ban to operate.

 

[DV RULES]

In first step to remove this fake MOHAJIR CARD, there should be liquidation of MQM, this will solve 60% problems of Karachi & Sindh.

 

[Evil Flare]

In first step to remove this fake MOHAJIR CARD, there should be liquidation of MQM, this will solve 60% problems of Karachi & Sindh.

When the killers said to a family that we killed your boy because of being a urdu speaker than what should we call us ?

 

[DV RULES]

Not surprised. Only a delusional, brain washed, full of **** and idol (Altaf) worshiper like you can give such a response when everyone in Karachi knows these guys belong to MQM. May be I shall refresh your memory by telling some more names like Aftab Commando, Ali Mota, Naeem Shari e.t.c. that were active in 1994-1995.

You need not to come out of your emotions because our nation as usual ignorance from the reality, worse you will find when people even don't want to listen because of their fake believes. All this scenario problematic for not only Karachi but for Pakistan. People forgot torch cell stories of MQM and stories of barbarism practiced there. I don't know how these people will wake up and will start to think over situation with open mind.

 

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People sit next to their family member killed in target killing.

People comfort a man who lost a family member in a target killing.

People mourn a death of their family member killed in target shooting.

Eight-year-old Sumayya, whose uncle, Imran Ali, was injured in a shootout by unidentified gunmen, looks at him as he is brought to a hospital for treatment in Karachi

Zulaikha Bibi, whose grandson, Faisal Shaikh, 32, was killed in a shootout by unidentified gunmen, cries as she watches rescue workers move his body to a morgue.

 

[DV RULES]

When the killers said to a family that we killed your boy because of being a urdu speaker than what should we call us ?

Aamir Zia


Just relax and come to think with neutrally, whole situation is so complex so we can’t get emotional and put result because of particular incidents. Post no. 633 material is giving idea what in actual going on. MQM from the first day used wrong line of action and responsible are our intelligence agencies, interior ministry, establishment & provincial bodies. It is common practice that we think over problem when it come to our neck but till that time we even don’t want to consider results. So this party should not be sanctioned/approved to come into existence because using Mohajir issue you are devaluing thousands of migrated people (Mohajir) in Pakistan but know they are Pakistani. Urdu is national language and spoken in all provinces of Pakistan. So purpose behind creation of MQM was not to fight for right of people but GUNDA GARDI on bases of using Mohajir card, even name of this party denied that there is any ethnic group exists like MOHAJIR so tell me what credibility left behind MQM? There was time when foreign intelligence agencies used ethnic issues to destabilize peace of Pakistan, in those issues there were Sindhi issue, Balochi, Sraiki on top. We can’t forget “JAY SINDH” slogan time when they attacked many Urdu speaking communities. But now this Urdu speaking protection party became biggest threat for its followers and for Karachi and Pakistan because their ideology will create nothing but hate and disgrace. We should not be allowed them at that initial time and should not allow them now, where question raised about Sindhi movements then it is responsibility of intelligence agencies to eliminate those elements causing ethnic clashes. Foreign intelligences are using this situation but you blame on each other.


Altaf Hussain is not a saint as Zardari, Gillani and like others but there should be end of DON-IZM in Karachi because Karachi is economical hub of Pakistan and all these goons have no interest in social improvement, earning improvement of a Pakistani living in Karachi or somewhere else because one goon is sitting in London with full comfort receiving Bhatta permanently and he don’t want to cut this source of income and second goon is sitting in president house want to control this golden hen. They even don’t bother how many lives lay on the streets dead or alive but they are using people for their money: FOR THEIR MONEY AND PROFIT BUT NOT FOR YOUR BETTER FUTURE.

(To be continued )

 

[BelligerentPacifist]

^Excellent post DV RULES. I know what AZ recounts is true too, esp. in these days of heightened tensions; but the only way out of it that I see is every interested party to take a step back. Sadly, none looks too keen on doing that...

 

[Evil Flare]

شہریوں کووحشیوں کے رحم وکرم پر چھوڑدیاگیا، مفتی علیم الحق فاروقی


منگل, 23 اگست 2011 18:36

کراچی، قرآن کریم کی تعلیمات امت کیلئے ضابطہ حیات اور مشعل راہ ہیں۔ قرآن وسنت کی تعلیمات پرعمل کرکے زندگیوں میں انقلاب برپا کیا
جاسکتا ہے۔

ان خیالات کا اظہار جمعیة علماء اسلام کے رہنماء مفتی علیم الحق فاروقی نے جمعیة علماء اسلام یو سی 5 سونگل گڈاپ ٹاون کے امیر مولانا سمیع الحق سواتی کی جانب سے جامع مسجد صدیق اکبرؓ جونجھار گوٹھ نیوسبزی منڈی میں تراویح میں ختم قرآن کے موقع پر تقریب سے خطاب کرتے ہو ئے کیا۔

اس موقع مولانا سمیع الحق سواتی، محمد شریف گبول، مولانا عثمان حضروی، مولانا عبدالغفور، مولانا صفدر حسین شاہ اور قاری طلحہ زبیر سواتی نے بھی خطاب کیا۔

مفتی علیم الحق فاروقی ودیگر نے خطاب کرتے ہوئے کہا کہ رمضان اور قرآن کا آپس میں گہرا ربط وتعلق ہے۔ قرآن کریم کا نزول اسی ماہ مقدس میں ہو ا۔ رمضان المبارک تزکیہ نفس کا مہینہ ہے۔ اس ماہ میں قرآن کریم کی تلاوت پر اللہ رب العزت کی طرف سے خاص اجر و ثواب ہے۔

انہوں نے کہا کہ آج امت مسلمہ کے مصائب، مشکلات اور مسائل کی وجہ قرآن وسنت کی تعلیمات سے رو گردانی ہے۔ اگر امت آج بھی پلٹ کر قرآن وسنت کے احکامات سے استفادہ کرے تو وہ ایک فاتح قوم بن کر دنیا بھر میں انقلاب برپا کر سکتی ہے۔ انہو ں کہا کہ قران سے دوری کی وجہ سے ہی مسلمان پستی اور زوال کا شکار ہیں۔

انہوں نے کہا کہ کراچی کے لاکھوں بے گناہ شہریوں کو مٹھی بھر دہشتگردوں کے رحم وکرم پر چھوڑ دیا گیا۔ ماہ مقدس میں معصوم شہریوں کو بے دردی سے شہیدکرنا درندگی اور حیوانیت ہے۔

انہوں نے کہا کہ کیا کراچی کے عوام یہاںکے باسی نہیں جو ان پر ظلم وستم کے پہاڑ گرائے جارہے ہیں اور انہیں رمضان المبارک کی بابرکت ایام میں وحشیوں اور درندوں کے رحم وکرم پر چھوڑ دیا گیا۔

انہوں نے کہا کہ مقتدر طبقہ بتائے کہ امن کی فاختہ کی اڑان پر کراچی میںکن قوتوں کے کہنے پر قدغن لگی ہوئی ہے۔

 

[Pukhtoon]

bari ajeb EID ki khareedari hy tere shehar karachi me SAHIL

Log ro ro k kafan kharid rahe han apny jaan nasheeno k liye


Ya ALLAH hum par aur hamare mulk par rahem farma AMEEN !!

 

[Evil Flare]

Rally in Shikarpur demands peace in Karachi

SHIKARPUR: A large number of people took part in a rally that was organized here on Tuesday against violence in Karachi.

The participants chanted slogans and offered prayers for peace in the city. They also lit candles and paid respects to those who have been killed in city violence.

They said they are with the people of Karachi and all Sindhi, Punjabi, Baloch, Muhajir, Pathan are brothers to each other.

The participants demanded immediate restoration of peace in Karachi.