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Over 14 dead in Karachi violence
Posted on April 1, 2012
KARACHI (NNI): Violence whipped through the streets of Karachi as nine more people fell victim to the shooting incidents, raising the death toll to 14 in last 24 hours
Karachi is mourning a week of seething violence linked to ethnic tensions.
The death toll from gunmen and arsonists was at least 10 on Friday night, while dozens of vehicles were set ablaze in the rampage. A day of mourning has been called by the chief of the MQM urging the business community to keep their businesses closed in support of their call.
Transporters kept their vehicles off the roads while all private schools were also shut. The latest wave of violence began after the killing of an Awami National Party (ANP) worker Hidayatullah Mehsud, a member of the party’s Sindh Council, in the Manghopir area, on Friday night. Ethnic violence has crippled the city with sparse business activity and pockets of violence. Some unidentified persons opened fired and injured two persons, Hassan and Wasim, in the Banaras Pull area of Karachi. Both injured were shifted to hospital but one of them succumbed to injuries.
Taking notice of the issue, Additional Inspector General of Police Akhtar Gorchani suspended police officials who were patrolling the area.
Three more people were shot dead by unidentified persons in orange Town, UP More and Defence Phase 2 areas. Firing incidents were also reported from Bahadurabad, Sarjani Town and Sadar areas where unidentified persons opened indiscriminate firing and injured three people.
Earlier, five people were shot dead in different parts of Karachi. An ANP activist and a police official were among the dead. Police have also rounded up more than a dozen people from Qasba Colony during a search operation. Meanwhile, President Asif Ali Zardari has returned to Karachi from London. The president held a meeting with Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah and both the leaders to discuss overall situation.
The President also issued instructions to take stern action against miscreants involved in violence and restore law and order situation in Karachi.
KARACHI (NNI): Violence whipped through the streets of Karachi as nine more people fell victim to the shooting incidents, raising the death toll to 14 in last 24 hoursKarachi is mourning a week of seething violence linked to ethnic tensions.The death toll from gunmen and arsonists was at least 10 on Friday night, while dozens of vehicles were set ablaze in the rampage. A day of mourning has been called by the chief of the MQM urging the business community to keep their businesses closed in support of their call.Transporters kept their vehicles off the roads while all private schools were also shut. The latest wave of violence began after the killing of an Awami National Party (ANP) worker Hidayatullah Mehsud, a member of the party’s Sindh Council, in the Manghopir area, on Friday night. Ethnic violence has crippled the city with sparse business activity and pockets of violence. Some unidentified persons opened fired and injured two persons, Hassan and Wasim, in the Banaras Pull area of Karachi. Both injured were shifted to hospital but one of them succumbed to injuries.Taking notice of the issue, Additional Inspector General of Police Akhtar Gorchani suspended police officials who were patrolling the area.Three more people were shot dead by unidentified persons in orange Town, UP More and Defence Phase 2 areas. Firing incidents were also reported from Bahadurabad, Sarjani Town and Sadar areas where unidentified persons opened indiscriminate firing and injured three people.Earlier, five people were shot dead in different parts of Karachi. An ANP activist and a police official were among the dead. Police have also rounded up more than a dozen people from Qasba Colony during a search operation. Meanwhile, President Asif Ali Zardari has returned to Karachi from London. The president held a meeting with Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah and both the leaders to discuss overall situation.The President also issued instructions to take stern action against miscreants involved in violence and restore law and order situation in Karachi.
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Normalcy returns to Karachi
Altaf calls for end to ‘day of mourning’; SHC takes suo motu notice
Nasir Mahmood
Karachi—Karachi observed its third day of mourning this week as violence continued to plague the city, taking the death toll to 14 in the last 24 hours.
Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) chief Altaf Hussain, who had also urged the business community to support his call by keeping theirbusinesses shut, had called the day of mourning. Traffic was low and businesses remained shut for most of the day. Earlier in the day, petrol pumps and businesses started to reopen and transport also started to run again after 5pm.
Altaf had also later thanked the citizens of Karachi for observing a “peaceful day of mourning.”
The recent wave of violence began after the killing of a man believed to be affiliated with the Awami National Party (ANP) on Friday evening. The man identified as Ashiq was shot at and injured in Qasba Colony, and later passed away in the evening. Three MQM supporters were also killed late Friday night.
Workers of both the MQM and ANP have been targeted this week, sparking a new wave of violence that has seen the city experience no activity and sporadic incidents of violence.
Meanwhile, Sindh High Court has taken a suo motu action over killing spree in port city of Karachi and has asked law enforcement agencies to submit lawlessness report till Saturday evening.
During the last 24 hours, over 14 persons in different parts of the metropolis, capital of southern province of Sindh, have been killed while dozens injured in firing incidents. |
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Karachi: violence claims 3 more lives
KARACHI: Three more people were killed while two others wounded in various incidents of violence and target killing in the metropolis, Geo news reported.
Some miscreants shot dead a man near Sindhi Hotel in New Karachi area. The man was later identideied as Akmal.
According to the police, two dead bodies were also recovered from Martin Quarter. The deceased were later identified as Zakir and Falim which were taken to hospital where it was revealed that Fahim was still alive.
In Mominabad, unidentified armed men, riding on motorbike, opened fire near Badar Chowk, killing a man. The deceased was identified as Aamir ullah.
Meanwhile, another man, named Ameen baba, sustained injuries as he resisted dacoits in Soldier Bazar #2. He was rushed to hospital.
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Which one to be believed-Heaven or Hell or Both?
Today is 1st April, 2012 which means some people can fool some but I very much doubt that newspapers can fool the whole nation on the day which I eventually will prove by quoting same news as reported differently in three different newspapers and then leave it to your sweet judgment to either appreciate and applaud newspapers or condemn me whatever pleases you the most.
If there is peace and no killing then of course it proves heaven but if instead one notice killing then it is nothing but hell. Today, Pakistan Observer newspaper captioned, ’Normalcy returns to Karachi’ which is what each and every citizen of Pakistan whether living within the country or overseas wishes for. Frontier Post newspaper of today headed one of its news as, ’Over 14 dead in Karachi violence’ whereas News wrote, ‘Karachi: violence claims 3 more lives’ and showed photos of 3 dead bodies duly draped in coffins.
I do understand that each newspapers has its own operational mechanism whereby its own staff, its associates and allied agencies etc work hand in hand so far as gathering the information and making a report for newspaper is concerned and hence there are always some chances, even remote, to find some difference in the same news which ought to be minimum but co-related too. It is almost next to impossible to eliminate such like discrepancies which can be found in the leading newspapers of the most advanced countries as well so we should be very much rational and judicious while objecting against our newspapers. It is quite but natural that the words and expressions used by two different persons on a particular news can be hundred percent identical in any case. However, there must be some relationship and equation between the newspapers when talk about a particular news but the difference cannot be so much grave and opposite both in nature and figures otherwise such like news is nothing less than a devil’s workshop which very efficiently and diligently produces horror coupled with terror.
Are you with me or against me? Which one did you believe-heaven or hell or both?
Iqbal Hadi Zaidi
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