Karachi Just two days before Muharram begins, sectarian violence surged in Karachi on Monday as at least four Shia community members were among nine people gunned down.A doctor, a tailor and a hospital technician were among the four killed in sectarian attacks, police said. Doctor killed In PECHS, a pulmonologist was gunned down inside his car near a dry cleaning shop in Block 2.Dr Naseem Abbas Shah, a Shia, was sitting in his car (AJB-154) when unidentified assailants on two motorcycles shot at him at pointblank range, ASP Ferozabad Akhtar Abbas told The News. The victim was shot twice in the head and died on the spot. Shah, who came from Multan, was a specialist and worked at the Hill Park General Hospital as well as his private clinic. He also held the Fellowship of College of Physicians and Surgeons (FCPS) Pakistan.Police said the victim had just divorced his wife after she left him two months ago. He was the father of two children and lived in BlocK 2, PECHS. Tailor shot dead In Liaquatabad, a tailor was targeted inside his shop in an attack that left two more people dead and another two injured in Sharifabad.Nadeem Raza, who belonged to the Shia community, and four others were sitting at Fancy Tailors near Zeenat Square when three attackers on a motorcycle came to the shop and opened fire at them, said SDPO Liaquatabad Wajahat Hussain. Raza, 35, was killed on the spot while the other injured victims were shifted to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital, where Shoaib Yasin, 40, and Mohsin Saleem, 38, succumbed to their injuries.Two more victims of the attack, Sohail and Imran, were admitted to the hospital.Police believed the attack was an act of sectarian target killing Paramedic slain In Manghopir, a medical technician at the Karachi Metropolitan Corporation-run Manghopir Leprosy Center was shot dead near the Garam Chashma.Fifty-year-old Sher Ali was returning home after leaving his children at school when he was killed, the Manghopir SHO said.Police claimed the killing could be a sectarian attack as the victim was from the Shia community. Man gunned down In another sectarian attack, a young man was shot dead near Azam Khan graveyard in Gulshan-e-Iqbal.Subhan Pervez was walking along with his Zuljinnah (the horse revered by Shias) when two men wearing helmets came on a motorcycle and shot him and the horse dead, said SP Gulshan-e-Iqbal Muqadas Haider. MQM worker killed In Orangi Town, an activist of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) was shot dead near Dabba Morr.Junaid Masoom alias Mansoor, 26, an activist of the MQM’s Unit No. 118, was killed by two assailants on a motorcycle, who came near him and after identifying him, shot him dead. Man killed in Lyari The body of an unidentified man, appearing to be in his mid-30s, was found near Aath Chowk in Kalakot.Kalakot SDPO Shakeel Ahmed said the victim was kidnapped, tortured and then shot dead. His body was taken to the CHK. He had suffered multiple bullets to the upper torso. Investigators said the area from where the body was found belonged to notorious gangster Abdul Jabbar alias Jhengo, which led to the suspicion that the victim might have been an informer for Baba Ladla and was murdered because of that. However, they added, if the victim was associated with Ladla, then they should have reacted to his killing.Investigators also suspect that the victim might have been associated with the Jhengo gang and they might have murdered him over some differences. Body found The trussed up body of a man was found in Mawach Goth, Baldia Town. The victim identified as 25-year-old Abdur Rasool had been shot in the head. PMA flays murders The Pakistan Medical Association (PMA) strongly condemned the murders of Dr Naseem Abbas and Dr Sher Ali, terming the killings “a conspiracy to disrupt peace just before Muharram”.The doctors’ body demanded that the government pay a substantial amount in compensation to the families of the doctors. A number of doctors have been killed in previous years and the criminals have never been brought to the book. The PMA condoled with the families of the slain doctors and demanded proper security measures to restore peace in Karachi. ‘Killings a conspiracy’ Condemning the sudden surge in target killings in the city before Muharram, the MQM’s coordination committee said that such crimes were a part of “an organised conspiracy to instigate sectarian riots in the metropolis”. They said people were justified in asking the authorities why such crimes were taking place when an operation was under way in the city.MQM leaders appealed to the Shia and Sunni communities not to get provoked over the killings so as to foil the “conspiracy”.They also demanded the president, prime minister and interior minister to take immediate notice of the “conspiracy”.
Posted on: Wed, 06 Nov 2013 01:16:33 +0000
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