http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2010\10\20\story_20-10-2010_pg1_1
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Karachi continues to bleed
* 30 people killed, including a dozen in single incident
* Four Baloch, one MQM-H activist also killed
* Zulfiqar Mirza says curfew may be imposed after 24 hours
By Faraz Khan
KARACHI: Thirty more people from various ethnicities, including one dozen
in a single incident, were killed in Karachi on Tuesday, taking the death toll
of the recent target killings to 73 after four consecutive days of violence.
The foremost incident occurred in the Shershah Kabaari Market, which
resulted in shutter down in the city. Reports say at least 24 armed men entered
the Kabaari Market and sprayed the traders and shopkeepers with bullets.
Witnesses said armed men, wearing camouflage caps that Lyari gangsters
commonly wore, on motorcycles entered the market and started indiscriminate
firing, and later fled the scene.
They claimed that the culprits also took at least seven traders with
them. Civil Hospital Medico-Legal Officer Dr Qarar Abbasi told Daily Times
eight people were brought dead, while two died during treatment. Abbasi Shaheed
Hospital MLO Dr Saleem Siddiqui said two dead bodies and two injured were
brought to the hospital. Seven people had been injured during the attack.
The witnesses said the assailants had come from the Lyari riverbed and
went back without any difficulty although Rangers and police personnel had been
deployed in the locality, but they too disappeared from the scene instead of
taking action.
Later, seven more people were gunned down, while three were found dead.
As per details, three bullet-riddled bodies, apparently Balochi, were found
near Radio Pakistan in the Preedy police precincts; Abdul Khaliq and Jamal were
found dead in an attack on a teashop in Gulistan-e-Johar; Muhammad Akram in
Sharah-e-Noor Jahan; a dates-seller in the Nazimabad police precincts; two
unidentified people in Pak Colony and Abdul Hassan Isphani Road; and a
passenger coach driver was killed in Moosa Colony in the Gulberg police
precincts.
Baloch, MQM-H: Before the Kabaari Market incident, five people, including
four Baloch-speaking and an activist of the Mohajir Qaumi Movement-Haqiqi were
killed in the city. The body of Abdul Hameed Sarbazi, a ward in-charge of the
Lyari gangsters-backed Peoples' Amn Committee, was found from Haryana Colony.
He had been killed after being kidnapped. Two more Baloch, Abid and his cousin
Saleem were gunned down in the Aurangzaib Market, while another Baloch, Nawaz
Zikri, was shot dead in the Abbasi Cloth Market.
Separately, a bullet-riddled and tortured body of MQM-H activist
Obaidullah was found within the Landhi police limits. Three more peopled were
gunned down late on Tuesday in separate incidents.
According to police sources, Asif Ali was shot near Dhobi Ghat and died
in Civil Hospital. In another incident, a bullet-riddled body of Rashid Baloch
was found from Gutter Baghicha, Pak Colony. In the third incident, a
35-year-old watchman's body was found from Masjid Khairul Amal. The identity of
the deceased could not be ascertained.
Curfew: Meanwhile, Sindh Home Minister Zulfiqar Mirza has indicated that
a curfew might be imposed after 24 hours, followed by a search operation, if
the current situation persisted in the city.
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