KARACHI, July 17: Six people, including a local office-bearer of the ruling Pakistan People’s Party, were killed overnight in acts of violence across the city, police and hospital sources said on Thursday.Sachal police said the 35-year-old PPP activist, Shahid Hussain Rind, was killed and another worker critically injured in front of nearby Shumail Complex in Gulistan-i-Jauhar in the small hours of Thursday.
The SP of Gulshan Town, Sohail Zafar Chattha, said a murder case (FIR No 429/08) was registered against workers of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement, a major coalition partner in the provincial setup, on the complaint of Mohammed Waqar Baloch, the deputy general secretary of the PPP in provincial constituency No PS-126.
He said that the victim had also been named in FIRs, adding that the nature of offences was not immediately known.
Mohammed Waqar Baloch told Dawn that deceased Rind was a car dealer and he was living with his parents in a flat in Jauhar Town.
He alleged that the Muttahida workers made his brother-in-law, Kashif, hostage at Shumail Complex and they sent one of his friends, Anver, for him and his other friends.
“We reached there to find my sister’s husband blindfolded with the captors, one of them pointing a pistol to his head,” he alleged and added that the Muttahida men released the captive warning him and his associates of dire consequences.
He named Salman, Khurrum, Imran alias Kalo, Shani and Arshi in the FIR and alleged that the Muttahida workers opened fire on them from behind as they left the Shumail Complex.
However, a spokesman for the MQM told Dawn that it was being ascertained at the moment whether the suspects named in the FIR belonged to the party.
Mr Baloch man said Shahid Hussain was killed instantly and another activist, Sadiq Ali Awan, received critical bullet wounds.
The body and the injured were shifted to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre where sources said the injured man, who sustained a bullet in his neck, was still in an unstable condition.
Mr Baloch said his brother-in-law owned three roadside chicken outlets in the locality.
Sachal police said no arrest was made so far in the case.
Body found
A young man was found shot dead in the garbage near a private school in Block-17 of Federal B. Area.
The body was shifted to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital where sources said the victim had been shot a single bullet to his head from a very close range as the bullet had gone through his skull.
They said the victim, clad in sky-blue shalwar-qamees, appeared to be in his late twenties.
Gulberg police registered a murder case against unknown culprits on behalf of the state and moved the body to the Edhi morgue in Sohrab Goth as the victim remained unidentified.
Watchman murdered
A 30-year-old watchman of a restaurant on Chand Bibi Road was found shot dead in a nearby parking lot where he was a part-time car washer.
Risala police said Saleem Khan, hailing from the NWFP, was found shot dead at around 6am.
The body was shifted to the Civil Hospital where sources said a single bullet shot to the victim’s head had proved fatal.
The police registered a case against unknown culprits on the complaint of the victim’s father, Noorul Amin, for murdering his son for ‘unknown reasons’. The police, however, suspected personal enmity as the motive behind the murder.
Factory worker shot dead
A 35-year-old factory worker was shot dead in his house in Sain Dad Goth in the small hours of Thursday.
Sohrab Goth police said unknown culprits pumped two bullets into Abdur Rahim, father of two, while he was asleep.
They registered a case against unknown culprits on the complaint of the victim’s father, Nazeer Hussain, who hailed from Sakrand.
PSF worker killed
A 21-year-old activist of the Pukhtoon Student Federation and a 20-year-old student were killed in a midnight firing incident in a residential plaza on Abul Hasan Isphani Road.
Sachal police said two groups exchanged fire during a meeting of the residents to sort out the issue of graffiti in their respective blocks.
The bodies were shifted to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital where the victims were identified as Zahid Masood, PSF activist, and Mohammed Yasir.
The police said Yasir was standing in his balcony when he received a single bullet in his upper torso.
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