Randhawa murder case: Killer with links to MQM arrested, claims police

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KARACHI: Additional Inspector General (AIG) of Sindh Police Shahid Hayat told the media on Tuesday that the police have captured the murderer of Advocate Naimat Ali Randhawa, further claiming that the alleged killer is affiliated with the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM), reported Express News.
Advocate Randhawa, leader of the Sindh’s lawyers wing of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz, was shot dead by armed motorcyclists on September 26 while on his way home in Block-B in North Nazimabad.
AIG Hayat claimed the accused was arrested from Gizri on Tuesday and a 9mm pistol recovered from his possession.
The police chief said the arrested has confessed to murdering Randhawa with assistance from a few other individuals, besides admitting to seven other instances of murder.
“We have arrested a murderer tonight who has admitted that he and a few other companions killed Naimat Ali Randhawa. He is affiliated with MQM’s unit-178 and has been identified as Kazim Abbas Rizvi, son of Syed Muhammad Abbas Rizvi.”
Hayat further explained that initial interrogations yielded the impression that the motive behind the killing was connected with the murder case of Wali Khan Babar, a journalist who worked for the television channel ‘Geo News’ and was gunned down in Liaquatabad, Karachi, on January 2011.
“According to my information, Advocate Randhawa had expressed the intent to present the final arguments in the murder case of Wali Babar, though he hadn’t yet filed the papers yet. We are going to investigate this further, but as far as preliminary investigations go, it seems the killers did not want the Advocate to prosecute in Babar’s case.”
He ruled out any sectarian dimension to the murder, terming it specifically as “politically motivated targeted killing”.
The AIG stated that the arrest was made possible through the joint efforts of police and Rangers, and that raids were underway for arrests of four other criminals that the murderer claimed to have been complicit in the crime.
“Kazim Abbas Rizvi has named his partners, and we are conducting raids to find them. I assure you we won’t let them get away.”
Randhawa murder case: Killer with links to MQM arrested, claims police – The Express Tribune
http://www.express.pk/story/181240/

 

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Some glimpse from the past...

All educated people are being target killed in Pakistan, by Indian network.

Only today, Indian weapons are discovered from MQM offices.

 

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well he needs to prove one now, only claiming won't do

 

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Targeted operation: MQM target killer confesses, police find no other evidence

KARACHI: A Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) activist, who was arrested for his alleged involvement in the murder of a lawyer, confessed to the crime but the police have yet to find any other evidence, The Express Tribune has learnt.

Advocate Naimat Ali Randhawa, a leader of the lawyers’ wing of the Pakistan Muslim League-
Nawaz in Sindh, was shot dead by armed motorcyclists in North Nazimabad on September 26. Later, in the evening of October 1, an urgent press conference was held at Central Police Office where Karachi AIG Shahid Hayat informed the media about the arrest of an MQM worker associated with the party’s unit 178, Syed Kazim Abbas Rizvi. “Rizvi killed Randhawa for taking up the Geo News reporter Wali Khan Babar case in court,” Hayat had claimed in the press conference. “He was arrested from Gizri and has confessed to have been involved in over half a dozen cases of target killings.”

Following his arrest, the accused was handed over to North Nazimabad police for further investigations but, since then, the investigators have made little progress. “We are relying on the confessions made by the accused,” investigation officer Inspector Mohammad Naeem admitted while talking to The Express Tribune. “We have yet to recover the pistol used in the assassination, find witnesses and other forensic evidence.”

The officer was of the opinion that Rizvi will most likely be released, much like the former MQM MPA Nadeem Hashmi, who was arrested earlier in September. “The court can release him [Rizvi] if we fail to gather proper evidence against him.” The accused is in police remand till October 19 and the law enforcers are trying to their level best to gather evidences against him before producing him in court.

According to the police, the accused revealed his involvement in over half a dozen cases of target killings. “We have only booked him in the murder case of Randhawa, not in any other murder,” said Naeem.

Picked up before

Meanwhile, the alleged target killer’s family and neighbours claimed that Rizvi was picked up by the Rangers in July also, the family said, adding that he was later handed over to Sharae Noor Jehan police, which booked him under murder, police encounter and possession of illegal weapon. “In the murder and illegal weapon possession case, he was acquitted by the court for want of evident,” said Rizvi’s uncle, Sohail Abbas. “Only the police encounter case is pending.”

When Rizvi was arrested again on September 27, the family thought he was being arrested for the same issue. The police assured the family that he will be released after an inquiry.

On the other hand, Inspector Raja Ulfat of Sharae Noor Jahan police station, who was investigating the cases registered against Rizvi, said that the weapon recovered from his possession was a .32 bore revolver. “This revolver is owned by Rizvi’s father and it has a licence,” said Ulfat. “I have never heard of anyone using this kind of a weapon in target killing, which gives him another chance to be released.”
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ublished in The Express Tribune, October 4th, 2013.

 

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