47 killed in Karachi since yesterday
 Updated 6 hours ago
 
KARACHI: Firing continues in old city areas including Lyari and those surrounding it while the death toll during the last 17 hours in the targeted killings in the provincial capital has mounted to 31, bringing the number of people killed in two days to 47.
Eighteen out of 31 killed are those who were slain after being abducted from houses and passenger busses in different parts of the city.
During the last 36 hours post-mortem of 39 bodies has been carried out, said a Senior Medico-Legal officer Dr. Aftab Chunar. He said 34 autopsies were done in Civil Hospital while 5 in Jinnah Hospital. Medical cases of 35 injured were also registered.
He said many families were taking away the bodies of their loved ones without waiting for the legal formalities to be completed.
The spokesman of Edhi Welfare Trust said that 19 bodies had so far been shifted to Edhi morgue and out of these 10 were yet to be identified.
According to police and Capital Police Liaison Centre (CPLC), reports were coming in of 30 people having gone missing.
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  Killers rule and not the government
For many weeks people are killed on daily basis in Karachi which is very much unprecdented and shockingly most deplorable to be honest and I seriously doubt that future days could be safe either. We should not forget that this is the holiest month of Ramazan but regretfully killing has been increased instead of subsiding. Karachi police chiefs in particular and Pakistan in general must be fired and sent home if not to jails and instead employ Bill Baratton, former New York police chief who was being hired by David Cameron, PM when London was hard hit by riots about a week ago. Some nationlists may not agree with me to import American but what to do when Pakistanis failed unless we want to just watch blood flowing all around and feel proud that we are looked after by Pakistanis and not foreigners but at what cost. BTW, does anyone know as to how many foreign consultants are already being paid by Pakistan govenment on one pretext or the other and if the answer is yes, which is the answer, then why not to have another one named Bill Baraton?
Prayers / Sincere Iqbal Hadi Zaidi / Kuwait