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India-Pakistan
FIA arrests 8 for alleged involvement in smuggling of Greece boat tragedy victims
2023-06-26
[Dawn] The Federal Investigation Agency arrested on Sunday eight suspects from across the country allegedly involved in smuggling the victims of the Greece boat tragedy.

Last week, an Italia-bound fishing trawler reportedly carrying at least 800 people — including approximately 300 Paks — capsized off Greece. Only 104 people are known to have survived and the chance of finding more survivors was seen as virtually nil.

The incident led to a day of mourning along with a nationwide crackdown initiated by the government on human smugglers.

On Friday, Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah said 82 deceased Pak victims had been recovered while amendments to laws were under consideration to ensure that those involved in human trafficking and employing illicit means to send people abroad would face appropriate punishment.

In a statement issued today, an FIA spokesperson said six human smugglers were arrested for facilitating the illegal journey of the Greece boat tragedy victims and five cases were registered against them.

The suspects, he said, were nabbed from Kallar Syedan, Jhang, and Beautiful Downtown Peshawar
...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistain's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire...
. "They received millions of rupees in return for illegally sending people to Europe."

The FIA identified the smugglers as Tanveer Ahmed, Muhammad Yousuf, Junaid Mehmood, Muhammad Islam, Haider Ali, and Durran Khan. "They sent people to Libya and then off to Europe," the agency added.

The spokesperson added that an inquiry against the men was initiated after identification by the victims’ families.

Another statement issued by the FIA later in the day said that two more suspects, Imran and Muhammad Yahya, were arrested from Sialkot and Gujranwala, respectively.

It stated the men sent the victims to Europa
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
via Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
and The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor...
 and took Rs850,000 for facilitating the illegal journeys. "Cases have been registered against them," the FIA added.

Earlier, FIA Deputy Director Rana Shahid Habib formed raid teams in major cities for intelligence-based investigations to arrest human smugglers. He said the teams were constantly in touch with the aggrieved families.

"We are using all our resources to arrest those involved in trafficking and will bring them to justice," Habib vowed.
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India-Pakistan
A Ceasefire and a Dream LoC villagers say silent guns paved way for development, call for its continuity
2023-03-11
[GreaterKashmir
...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there....
] The silence of guns on the Line of Control (LoC) due to the ceasefire between Indian and Pak soldiers for the last two years has brought in an era of peace with people living in villages along the heavily-guarded LoC terming this peaceful time as a dream coming true.

They have called for continuity of ceasefire stating that peace was the basic need of every human being and now they could see life aspects other than braving shells that used to be a routine at the time of ceasefire violations and cross-LoC shelling.

The LoC ceasefire was agreed upon by India and Pakistain in February 2021 after which a situation of calm has been prevailing on the Line of Control, along with the International Border (IB).

Official figures also reveal that not a single incident of violation of ceasefire from Pak side had been registered in the last two years and the first week of March.

This ceasefire agreement between India and Pakistain completed two years on February 23 with people living along the LoC being the prime beneficiaries of this truce.

In Niaka village of Rajouri, civilian population is now able to live life without the fear of death due to mortar shells, rocket launchers, or bullets that were a routine at the times of ceasefire violations.

"For four years, our family was thinking of building a new house. However,
today is that tomorrow you were thinking about yesterday...
 we were not able to construct the new house, as ceasefire violations in the area were a regular feature," said Ibrar Ahmad Kohli, a youth from Niaka village.

Niaka village in Rajouri is India's last village ahead of LoC in Tarkundi sector.

This village has seen intense shelling during ceasefire violations in the past.

Two women from the village also bit the dust in 2017 after a mortar shell hit their house.

Kohli said that earlier due to ceasefire violation no mason or labourer used to work in the village as remaining under the open sky during shelling was like an open invitation to death.

"Things now have changed due to the ceasefire. Now everyone is busy with their lives like people in other villages," he said.

Muhammad Yousuf, a social activist muppet, said that things had improved to a major extent due to the ceasefire and everyone in the area wanted this peace pact to continue.

"Only we know the hardships that are faced during shelling. No one outside our villages can even think of the nightmare we used to have," Yousuf said.

Muhammad Nazir, 41, who lives in the last hamlet on the LoC termed the ceasefire as a dream come true for the people of this border area.

"We always dreamt of a dignified life without fear of death, without bangs of mortar shelling, without explosions, without bullets, and a life in which we can send our children to schools without fear, in which we can work in our fields without fear and a life in which we can sleep inside our houses without thinking of dying due to a mortar shell landing on us," he said.

He said that the people living in villages along the LoC including Ratti Mitti, Chiti Bakri, Niaka, Chamba, Panjgrian, and Peryali were poor and faced a severe crisis of basic amenities like road connectivity, water supply, electrification, schooling, healthcare.

However,
today is that tomorrow you were thinking about yesterday...
 the first thing that people want is peace, which only the silence of guns amid ceasefire can bring.
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Afghanistan
'6 Taliban Commanders' Killed In Herat Airstrike: Officials
2020-07-23
[ToloNews] At least six Taliban
...Arabic for students...
 local commanders were killed on Wednesday in an Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
 in Herat
...a venerable old Persian-speaking city in western Afghanistan, populated mostly by Tadjiks, which is why it's not as blood-soaked as areas controlled by Pashtuns...
 province, local officials said.

Jelani Farhad, the governor's front man, said that the strike was conducted in "Zeyart Kham" area of Guzara district of Herat province and several other commanders were maimed.

Based on preliminary information, those reported killed: "Abdullah Akbari, Mawolavi Haidar, Mullah Rahmatullah, Zabiullah Akbari, Mullah Mohammad--known as Idres--and Mullah Abdulhaq--known us Osama," were the Taliban local commanders for Guzara, Adraksan, Pashton Zarghon districts of Herat province.

According to Farhad, the commanders were gathered and making plans to attack government installations and to conduct attacks in Herat city, when they were targeted in the airstrike.

Several other Taliban were also maimed in the strike and also their weapon caches were destroyed, Farhad said.

Meanwhile,
...back at the the conspirators' cleverly concealed hideout the long-awaited message arrived. They quickly got to work with their decoder rings...
 the residents claim that at least eight non-combatants were killed and nearly 20 others were maimed in the airstrike attack, which they say targeted a wedding party.
Where is it written that a jihadi attack cannot be planned at a Taliban-adjacent wedding?
A number of witnesses and maimed in the incident say that aircraft also targeted those who were fleeing the area after bombing the wedding ceremony.

Women and children are also among dead and maimed, residents said.

Officials at the Herat District Hospital say that five people injured in the airstrike have been transferred to the hospital, and that so far a woman is reported to be at death's door.

The Taliban said in a statement that civilians have been killed in the attack.

At the same time, a car carrying civilians was reportedly hit by a Taliban mine planted in the Osto village, on the border between Guzara and Adraskan districts, killing or injuring a number of civilians.

Several maimed were transferred to health centers, Farhad said.
The Jerusalem Post reports 45 dead from two airstrikes, at least eight of whom were civilians, with more wounded, adding:
A front man for U.S. forces in Afghanistan said they had not taken part in Wednesday's Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
s.

Qari Muhammad Yousuf Ahmadi, a Taliban
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
 front man, said in a statement that two airstrikes in Heart had killed eight civilians and maimed 12.

Two local officials confirmed there had been two rounds of airstrikes.
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Afghanistan
Taliban: Claims about death of Al Qaeda leader in Helmand are false
2019-10-09
Does he mean Asim Umar, chief of Al Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS) whose death was reported yesterday, or someone else?
[ALEMARAHENGLISH] Officials of the stooge Kabul administration claimed to have killed a leader associated with Al Qaeda organization during the raid and bombing of a wedding in Musa Kala district, Helmand
...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan...
We categorically reject this claim by Kabul officials and consider it a part of enemy fabricated propaganda.

Truth of the matter remains that the said operation in Musa Kala district only caused heavy civilian losses and tens of ordinary civilian Afghans including those participating in a wedding ceremony were martyred and maimed.

The enemy is trying to use such claims to conceal the crime it perpetrated in Musa Kala.

Spokesman of Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan

Qari Muhammad Yousuf Ahmadi

Related:
Al Qaeda: 2019-10-05 US offers reward for Islamic State leader linked to Niger ambush
Al Qaeda: 2019-10-03 Arrested HujiB leader met Osama bin Laden
Al Qaeda: 2019-10-02 UK: Gang of 16 knife wielders single-out white victims in Londonistan
Related:
Helmand: 2019-10-07 Afghan MoI Summary: 25 Taliban Terrorists Killed In Badghis
Helmand: 2019-10-05 Kidnapped Teachers, Health Workers Rescued In Helmand
Helmand: 2019-10-04 Airstrikes kill 18 Taliban militants in 6 provinces, destroy stolen Humvee
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India-Pakistan
4 policemen gunned down in Karachi's SITE area during iftar
2017-06-24
[DAWN] Four coppers were bumped off in Bloody Karachi
...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous...
's SITE area on Friday in what appeared to be an incident of murder, officials told Dawn.

SITE Station House Officer (SHO) Rana Maqsood said the coppers were having iftar at a hotel located between Siemens Chowk and Habib Bank Chowrangi when three unidentified persons on two cycle of violences opened fire on them.

The coppers ─ Assitant Sub-Inspector Muhammad Yousuf, and police constables Shabir, Khalid and Israr ─ was struck down in his prime while the suspects managed to escape.

Maqsood initially claimed that the assailants belonged to a "defunct terrorist organization".

However,
Caliphornia hasn't yet slid into the ocean, no matter how hard it's tried...
 Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) official Raja Umer Khattab told Dawn that a new krazed killer organization called the Jamaat-ul-Ansar al-Sharia
...a Salafist militia which claims it is not part of al-Qaeda, even though it works about the same and for the same ends. There are groups of the same name in Libyaand Yemen, with the Libyan versions currently most active. Tunisia's Shabaab al-Tawhid started out an Ansar al-Sharia and changed its name in early 2014. It still uses the old name now and then, probably because the stationery's not all used up and the web site hasn't expired yet...
 Pakistain had grabbed credit for the attack on the coppers in pamphlets dropped at the site of the shooting.

Members of the krazed killer outfit had doubled back to the scene of the crime after the attack and dropped pamphlets claiming responsibility for the attack, Khattab said.

Khattab said that the krazed killer organization was "newly established" and had previously grabbed credit for the murder of a retired army officer in Karachi.

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India-Pakistan
Campaign against 'radical' seminaries going nowhere
2015-03-24
[DAWN] Three months after the unveiling of the National Action Plan (NAP) and more than two months after Interior Minister Nisar Ali Khan's disclosure that perhaps 10 per cent of all madressahs were involved in terrorism, it appears that no government agency is ready to own the drive to identify these seminaries.

While the relevant officials in National Counter Terrorism Authority (Nacta) and the interior ministry declined to comment on the issue officially, a senior Nacta official told Dawn off the record that the Ministry of Religious Affairs was the lead coordination agency for this effort.

Similarly, an official from the interior ministry, who too was only willing to comment on condition of anonymity, said that the interior secretary had asked the religious affairs secretary to coordinate with seminaries over three matters.

"These three matters are source of financing and especially foreign funding, madressah registration and monitoring," he added.

Whether or not the government is willing to acknowledge this officially, it cannot be denied that on the face of it, the only government department which has been involved in negotiating with the seminaries publicly is the religious affairs department.

Just a religious matter?

Religious Affairs Minister Sardar Muhammad Yousuf said that his ministry was focused on reforming the religious sector, streamlining madressah registration and facilitating the seminaries.

Officially, there is no news of the interior ministry or any of its departments having met representatives from the madressahs.

This means that government efforts vis-à-vis the seminaries are no different from past measures.

"We have held the meeting of the Madressah Education Board after 11 years and there is a proposal to establish an Islamic Education Commission on the lines of the HEC," the minister said, adding, "These steps will correct the flaws in madressahs."

Though the minister refused to explain what exactly he meant by "flaws", he was adamant that the Ministry of Religious Affairs had nothing to do with terrorism or checking foreign funding to seminaries.

In his media statement on December 21, 2014 the interior minister had said, "Some 90 per cent of madressahs have no connection to terrorism -- based on intelligence reports."

By saying so, he implied that at least 10 per cent did have such links, which is the reason madressah reform was a major objective in the 20-point NAP.

A month later, on January 18, 2015, he reiterated, "The religious institutions are requested to cooperate with the government to identify potential terrorists."
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India-Pakistan
World urged to declare rape, molestation in Held Kashmir a war crime
2015-03-09
But not elsewhere, like Pakistani Kashmir?
[NATION.PK] Hurriyat Conference Jammu Kashmire (HCJK) has called for speedy justice to the victims of rape and molestation committed by the armed forces in different parts of Jammu and Kashmire since 1990, urging the international community to declare sexual and physical harassment of women in Kashmire as a war crime under international law.

"Expeditious justice should be delivered to the women who were subjected to rape and molestation by the armed forces operating in Jammu Kashmire since 1990 and guilty forces should be awarded exemplary punishment," the amalgam leaders including Mustaq-ul-Islam, Muhammad Yousuf Naqash, Shabir Ahmad Dar and Muhammad Iqbal Mir, in a joint statement on the International Women's Day Sunday, adding that all the pending cases of rape and molestation should be adjudicated at the earliest and guilty awarded punishment.
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India-Pakistan
Christian Couple Burned Alive For Blasphemy In Pakistan
2014-11-05
[BREITBART] A Christian couple, 35-year-old Shahzad Masih and his 31-year-old wife Shama Bibi, were burned to death Tuesday morning by a Moslem mob in the south of Lahore (Punjab province), accused of committing blasphemy for allegedly burning pages of the Qur'an.

The two, who worked in a clay-baking factory, were kidnapped on November 2 and held hostage for two days inside the factory. On Tuesday morning at 7:00 a.m. the two were beaten and then pushed into the brick kiln. Shama was pregnant.

According to Sardar Mushtaq Gill, a lawyer and human rights
...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty...
 defender who visited the scene of the event, the supposed blasphemy occurred upon the recent death of the Shahzad's father. Two days ago, Shama was cleaning her father-in-law's house, and in the process burned some personal items and papers that seemed useless. A Moslem man saw what she was doing and spread the word in the surrounding villages that the papers she burned included pages of the Koran. A mob of over 100 people formed, and took the couple hostage, finally executing them Tuesday.

Emaneul Sarfraz, a relative of the dear departed couple, offered a slightly different version of the events. According to Sarfraz, his cousin Shahzad and his wife Shama had been working in the kiln of Muhammad Yousuf Gujjar.

"The couple along with their four children wanted to leave the kiln as Yousuf was not paying their remuneration. He demanded Rs 5,00,000 from them, if they wanted to quit."

"Two days ago, after an exchange of words Yousuf locked the couple along with their children in a room," Sarfraz said. After two local mosques announced the alleged blasphemy, "a large number of Moslems led by area holy mans reached the kiln and dragged the couple out of the room after breaking into it. They first tortured them and then threw them in the kiln," he said.

According to another report, as the Christian couple was burning and protesting their innocence, the mob was shouting "Allah hu Akbar," "death to blasphemers," and "kill the infidel Christians," at which Christian residents nearby fled from their homes to safety.

The same report claims that it was the owner of the brick Kiln factory, Yousaf Gujjar, and his manager who instigated Moslems of nearby villages to punish Shahzad and Shama after a Moslem employee complained of them burning of pages of the Qur'an.

The police, alerted by other Christians, came to the scene, substantiated the death and brought in 35 people for questioning.

A local cop shoppe official Bin-Yameen confirmed that "a mob attacked a Christian couple after accusing them of desecration of the holy Koran and later burnt their bodies at a brick kiln where they worked."

Dr. Nazir Bhatti, president of the Pakistain Christian Congress, said in a statement that Pak blasphemy laws are a license for Moslems to kill Christians. "Blasphemy laws are only legislated to target religious minorities in Pakistain," Bhatti said.

Gill called the act "barbaric and inhumane," calling for the whole world to "strongly condemn this incident, which shows the increased danger for Christians in Pakistain." A simple accusation "is sufficient to be victims of lynching. We'll see if anyone is punished for this murder," he said.

According to AFP, Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif
...Pak dynastic politician, brother of PM Nawaz Sharif, chief minister of Punjab...
 has established a three-member committee to investigate the killings and has ordered the police to reinforce security in Christian neighborhoods in the province.
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India-Pakistan
Imambargah attacks leave three dead, spark outrage
2013-11-10
[Pak Daily Times] At least three people were killed early on Saturday when gunnies opened fire on two Imambargahs
...since they're religiously correct™, Shia Moslems in Pakistain can't call their houses of worship 'mosques,' which are reserved for Sunnis. It's not clear if imambargahs are used for explosives storage like mosques are...
 in Gujranwala, sparking protests from mourners and enraged members of the Shia community.

According to police reports, the first incident took place close to dawn when unidentified gunnies opened fire as Muhammad Yousuf, the prayer leader of the Qasr-e-Abu Talib Imambargah in Mominpura area, had just finished leading Fajr prayers. Yousuf and another person present at the mosque was struck down in his prime.

A short while later, gunnies entered the Qasr-e-Zainabiya Imambargah in Shahrukh Colony located a short distance from the first mosque and opened indiscriminate firing, killing worshiper Syed Javed on the spot.

According to initial investigation reports by police, the attackers had come on cycle of violences and managed to escape. A witness told a local TV channel that the gunnies used a silencer-fitted pistol.

A police officer said the attacks appeared to be sectarian in nature.

Gujranwala RPO Syed Akhtar Bharwana said police could not rule out involvement of the same group in both incidents. Police and other law enforcement agencies reached the spots, cordoned off the entire area and started a search operation.

Soon after the incidents, mourners and relatives carried the bodies of the dear departed to the main Alam Chowk bypass on GT Road and blocked the road in protest. The enraged protesters also burnt tyres and rolled their eyes, jumped up and down, and hollered poorly rhymed slogans real loud against the government. Shops, markets and other business activities were closed after the protests.

President Mamnoon Hussain and Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif
... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf...
 have condemned the firing incidents.

Sympathising with the bereaved families, the prime minister in a statement prayed to God to grant the departed souls eternal peace and give courage to their families to bear the irreparable loss with fortitude.

The prime minister also assured the victim families that the culprits would be incarcerated
Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages!
 and brought to justice.

Meanwhile,
...back at the palazzo, Count Guido stepped from behind the suit of armor, rapier in hand. Ciccolini snarled and reached for his own weapon...
 Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has ordered an inquiry into the incidents of firing, said Punjab Environment Minister Col (r) Shuja Khanzada. He said that those involved in the incidents would be punished.

The minister added that that the chief minister, Punjab cabinet and all parliamentarians strongly condemned this incident and equally share the grief of Shias. Addressing a meeting at Commissioner's Office in Gujranwala, Shuja Khanzada said that police and law enforcement agencies have been further activated and on the orders of chief minister, security of mosques, Imambargahs and worship places of non-Mohammedans has been intensified throughout the province.

He said that after the tragic incidents of Gujranwala, reservations have increased and a comprehensive strategy has been evolved to overcome it.

"Enemy wants to create anarchy and chaos in our country," he said and stressed the need for unity at every level for foiling nefarious designs of outlaws.

The minister also appealed to people to remain peaceful and promote unity in their ranks.

"We are all Paks and we will have to sacrifice our personal interests over collective interests by promoting religious harmony for the solidarity of the country."
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India-Pakistan
Three guards killed in botched cash van raid
2013-03-13
[Dawn] Three private security guards were rubbed out during an armed attack by bandidos on their cash van in an Orangi Town area on Monday, police said.

They said that the security guards resisted the robbery attempt to an extent that they laid down their lives and forced nearly one dozen gunnies to run away only with Rs400,000 out of around Rs8 million in the cash van.

They said that the cash van of the Phoenix Securities was returning from the Aligarh Market branch of the MCB when around a dozen armed riders intercepted it.

DSP Zahid Hussain Siddiqi said that the van was carrying some Rs8 million. Initially four youngsters on two cycle of violences intercepted the van, but when the firing began, their aides on two or three bikes emerged there, he added.

He said that an exchange of gunfire took place between the security guards and the gunnies. The intense firing sowed fear and panic in the densely populated neighbourhood.

Witnesses said that they saw people running for cover and traders pulling down shutters.

By the time the guns fell silent, a heavy contingent of police backed by the Rangers reached the scene and found all three guards -- Amanullah, Ghulam Muhammad and Irfan Khan -- badly maimed.

"The guards were shifted to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital where they died," said the area DSP. "The van was later examined and it was found that over Rs400,000 are missing from the total cash that suggested that the bandidos managed to take away some cash."

The bandidos were also armed with explosives and while fleeing they threw 'explosive-packed tennis balls' to harass people who gathered there.

"The kaboom caused injuries to three people, including two children. They were identified as 50-year-old Muhammad Yousuf, 10-year-old Shumail and eight-year-old Rehan," added DSP Siddiqi.

No case was registered at the Orangi Town cop shoppe till late in the night and the officials said that they were gathering facts and collecting evidence before lodging an FIR.
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India-Pakistan
ASWJ cleric among seven shot dead in city
2013-01-28
[Dawn] Seven men, including a prayer leader associated with the Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat (ASWJ),
The false nose and mustache name of Sipah-e-Sahaba...
were rubbed out in different parts of the city since Friday, police and hospital sources said on Saturday.

They said that Noorul Bashar, 28, was the prayer leader of the Muhammedia Islamia Masjid in Orangi Town and a resident of nearby Bengali Para.

The police said that the victim along with two others was sitting near a cigarette cabin when two motorcyclists opened fire on them.

They said that the prayer leader died instantly and two others, Maulana Saleem Ullah and Shoaib, sustained bullet wounds.

The body was shifted to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital where medico-legal sources said that the victim was shot in the head from a very close range as the bullet went through his skull.

The maimed were later shifted to the Liaquat National Hospital where they were stated to be in a stable condition.

A front man for the ASWJ stated that the victim was also a local leader of the party, while Maulana Saleem Ullah was a member of mosque committee.

He said that the ASWJ would observe a protest day on Sunday.

MQM man killed

A young man was killed and his brother maimed in an attack on them on Jahangir Road within the remit of the Jamshed Quarters cop shoppe.

The police said Sharafat Ali and Mubarak Ali, sons of Shabaan Ali, were at an air-conditioner and refrigerator repair shop where two motorcyclists came and sprayed them with bullets.

They said that Sharafat died instantly and his younger brother sustained critical bullet wounds.

The body and the maimed were shifted to the Civil Hospital Bloody Karachi
...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous...
 where sources said that deceased sustained four bullets and his brother sustained three bullet wounds.

The police said that they had collected 18 spent bullet casings from the spot.

They said that the two brothers, residents of PIB Colony, were employed in the Bloody Karachi Metropolitan Corporation and they worked part time at the repair shop.

The two brothers were stated to be affiliated with the Muttahida Qaumi Movement.
...English: United National Movement, generally known as MQM, is the 3rd largest political party and the largest secular political party in Pakistain with particular strength in Sindh. From 1992 to 1999, the MQM was the target of the Pak Army's Operation Cleanup leaving thousands of urdu speaking civilians dead...
Killings in Orangi

A 23-year-old man was rubbed out in Orangi Town within the remit of the Iqbal Market cop shoppe.

The police said that the victim, Waqar Ahmed aka Vicky,
Vicky? I used to date a girl named Vicky in high school. Ahhh, Vicky! How sweet she was! Nobody filled a sweater quite like Vicky. I don't think this is the same Vicky, though.
son of Syed Nisar Ahmed, was affiliated with a banned religious outfit. He was a tailor by profession.

They said that the victim was targeted by two motorcyclists who rode away after their swift operation.

A 28-year-old man was rubbed out within the remit of the same cop shoppe. The victim was identified as Shabbir Ahmed, who was targeted near his house at Islam Nagar.

The police said that two motorcyclists killed the young man who dealt in shopping bags.

Man rubbed out in F. B. Area

Motorcyclists rubbed out a 30-year-old man, Waseem Zafar, in Block 11 of Federal B. Area within the remit of the Gulberg cop shoppe.

Witnesses said that the victim was sitting with his friends near his house when attackers opened fire on him. They said that one of the attackers also stabbed the victim when he fell down after being shot.

The police said that he was a former worker of a political party.

'Gangster' killed in attack

A 32-year-old man, who had recently come out of jail after serving over a two-and-half-year term, was rubbed out near Al-Makka hotel at Secor 5-B in Surjani Town.

The police said that Mirza Sabir Baig, son of Mirza Saleem Baig, was talking to someone on his cellular phone when two cycle of violences targeted him.

They said that the attackers rode away after their swift operation and the victim died before he could be shifted to hospital.

The police said that the man was involved in several criminal cases including murder.

They said that the victim was apparently killed by his gangland opponents.

Youth rubbed out by fleeing bandidos

A 25-year-old man was killed when one of the fleeing robbers opened fire in Federal B. Area.

The police said that two robbers were decamping with the booty after looting a fresh milk shop at Samanabad when people caught hold of one of them.

They said that the one of them opened fire and a bullet hit Muhammad Yousuf son of Illahi, who died instantly.

Onlookers and passers-by became enraged and brutally tortured the captured suspect who was later taken into custody by the police.

The police said that the victim ran a tyre mending shop in front of the robbed milk shop and he was shot when he attempted to grab one of the fleeing dacoits.

The tossed in the clink
You have the right to remain silent...
 suspect was identified as Amir, hailing from Punjab.

Strangled

In Surjani Town, the body of a 30-year-old man was found in the bushes at a desolate place near Northern Bypass within the remit of the Surjani Town cop shoppe.

The police shifted the body to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital where he was identified as Adnan, son of Haji Akram, hailing from Balochistan.
...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it...
Medico-legal sources said that the young man was strangled.

The police suspected personal enmity as a likely motive for the murder.

Woman killed

A 25-year-old woman was found strangled in her house in Sector 11-B of North Bloody Karachi.

The victim was identified as Sonia, wife of Muhammed Nawaz.

Her body was shifted to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital where medico-legal sources said that the woman was strangulated and her body also bore marks of torture.They said that the post-mortem report was reserved.

The police said that the body was later handed over to the victim's family, who would contact them after burial for lodging an FIR.

Body found

The body of a young man was found in the underground water tank of an under-construction building near Makki Masjid.

The Nabi Bux police shifted the body to the Civil Hospital for an appointment with Dr. Quincy and later moved to the Edhi's morgue at Sohrab Goth as the victim remained unidentified.

Medico-legal sources said that the victim was clad in shalwar-qameez and he appeared to be in his mid-20s.
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Tribunal set for under custody killings of Christian brothers
2010-07-30
[Dawn] The Government of Punjab has set a tribunal to investigate the killings of two Christian brothers.

Muhammad Yousuf, a judge of Labour Court 4 has been appointed to probe the killings.

One member tribunal will start to investigate the matter on 2nd August and will submit final report to the provincial government in 15 days.

Both brothers were arrested in a blasphemy case and killed in police custody when unknown gunmen opened fire on them.
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