KARACHI: Police on Wednesday claimed to have killed two suspected kidnappers who were brothers of the slain Arshad Pappu of Lyari gang warfare fame.

A special police team of the Anti-Violent Crime Cell with the help of the Citizens-Police Liaison Committee carried out a raid in Tariq Bin Ziad Society of Model Colony in the early hours of the day. The policemen were attacked by the suspects, who opened fire and threw hand-grenades at the police party. As a result, a policeman was hit by a gunshot in the leg and wounded while two other policemen were injured by grenades, said AVCC chief Nasir Aftab.

In ‘retaliatory firing’, two suspects were killed. The bodies were shifted to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre. Later they were identified as Abdullah, alias Shera, and Nasir, alias Bengali, brothers of Arshad Pappu, added the officer.

Mr Aftab said the raid was conducted by tracing the telephone location of one of the kidnapped persons with the help of the CPLC.

Arshad Pappu, one of the ringleaders of Lyari’s gang warfare, was brutally murdered in a locality of the old city on March 16, 2013 and later his dismembered body was thrown there. The Supreme Court of Pakistan took suo motu notice of the incident and ordered the registration of an FIR against the suspects, including a PPP MNA from Lyari.

Two killed in warfare

Gang warfare between two rival groups in Mehmoodabad claimed two lives early Wednesday morning, according to police.

Members of the two gangs — Ashok Group and Laasi Group — fought each other in Chanesar Goth. As a result a young man was killed on the spot the other died during treatment in the JPMC.

The dead men were identified as Faisal Karim and Wali Dad, 28. They belonged to the separate gangs in the area and were wanted in several criminal cases, said South SSP Faisal Bashir Memon.

Published in Dawn, October 2nd, 2014