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Four 'gangsters' killed in Malir

2014-02-14

[DAWN] KARACHI: Four men allegedly belonging to a criminal gang operating in Malir were killed in two incidents, police said on Wednesday. They said that a joint raid of police and Rangers was carried out in Salar Goth where in an ensuing encounter two suspects were bumped off. They were identified as Muhammad Arif alias Billa, 28, and Shan alias Shani Mohajir, 28. Malir City DSP Rao Muhammad Iqbal said that they were members of the Sohail Dada gang, which is also linked with gangs in Lyari. Earlier, the Memon Goth police said two young men were found rubbed out in 'Ber Sharif ground'. The bodies were moved to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre for a post-mortem examination. They were identified as Aman alias PMT, 22, and Muhammad Asif, 23. Memon Goth SHO Naeem Khan claimed that they were members of the Sohail Dada gang. They lived in Ghazi Goth and Daud Goth, respectively, he added. Also on Tuesday, bodies of two faceless myrmidons were found within the remit of the same cop shoppe. According to the Memon Goth SHO, the two men were identified on Wednesday as Gul Rehman and Muhammad Ali. Both of them were also members of the Sohail Dada gang, he claimed. Meanwhile, ...back at the cheese factory, all the pieces finally fell together in Fluffy's mind... area people, especially women and kiddies, erupted into the streets to lodge their protest against the targeted operation of the law enforcement agencies. The protesters staged a demonstration outside the Malir district courts, where the police resorted to teargas shelling to disperse them. The Malir City police said that no one was enjugged Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! and the protesters dispersed after the police lobbed 'three to four teargas shells' and the National Highway was cleared for traffic. Man rubbed out in 'sectarian' attack A man was bumped off in suspected sectarian attack in Federal B Area on Wednesday evening. The Yousuf Plaza police said that Qari Jamil Rehman, 35, was riding a cycle of violence when gunnies, also on a cycle of violence, targeted him near Saghir Centre. A passer-by, Shahid Zaman, was also hurt in the firing. Qari Rehman sustained five bullet wounds and was taken to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital, where doctors pronounced him dead He's dead, Jim! The police said the victim was a resident of Quaid-e-Azam Colony in Gulshan-e-Iqbal. He left his residence for Sakhi Hasan to teach children Koran. It appeared that the assailants chased him and then targeted him. It might be a case of sectarian killing, said SSP-Central Amir Farooqi. He said the victim returned to the city from his native town in Punjab on Tuesday. Killing in Pak Colony A young man was rubbed out in Pak Colony on Wednesday, according to police. They said that Kashif Iqbal was standing outside his home in Moslemabad in Old Golimar when gunnies fired at him and fled. The maimed was taken 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 he was pronounced dead. He's dead, Jim! Pak Colony SHO Munir Chandio said that the victim, who originally hailed from Hazara, was killed over an old enmity. Guard killed A private security guard was killed in the Shahrah-e-Noor Jehan area under mysterious circumstances, police said. They said that Yaqub Akbar, 37, was performing his duty in North Nazimabad's Block-I when a bullet fired from some holy man's guesthouse an undisclosed location hit him in the back. He was taken to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital where he was pronounced dead. He's dead, Jim! The police said they were probing the incident. Suspect killed in 'encounter' A suspected robber was rubbed out in a police encounter in the Rizvia Society area on Wednesday, police said. Rizvia Society SHO Hasan Haider said that three suspects got off from a rickshaw at Lasbella bridge and entered a passenger bus and started looting the commuters. When the bus reached near the Hyderi mosque in Gulbahar, the passengers raised a hue and cry, alerting a police patrol. The coppers chased the suspects and in an ensuing encounter two of them suffered bullet wounds. Afzal Abdullah, a suspect, was arrested but his accomplice managed to escape in a rickshaw along with the second maimed suspect, Asfar Khan. Later, he was found dead in the rickshaw in the Jamshed Quarters area. The body and the maimed were shifted to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital. Man killed in Mubarak village An elderly man, identified as Haroon Hasil, 65, was rubbed out in Mubarak Village on Wednesday. The Mauripur police said he was killed allegedly by his nephew Khurram over a land dispute. The body was shifted to the Civil Hospital for a post-mortem examination.

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Nine acquitted in explosives case

2011-04-14

[Dawn] The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Tuesday acquitted nine men convicted in a case of carrying huge quantity of kaboom, and rejected the appeal of prosecution for enhancing their sentences. Justice Chaudhry Mohammad Tariq of LHC's Rawalpindi bench accepted the appeals of Qari Mohammad Illyas and eight others, setting aside their convictions after their lawyer argued that the prosecution had failed in proving that the men were placed in durance vile from a house in the outskirts of Rawalpindi on January 29, 2009. The nine men have already been acquitted by an anti-terrorism court in the case of killing Army Surgeon General Mushtaq Baig in a suicide kaboom in Rawalpindi on February 25, 2008 for want of evidence against them. Qari Illyas alias Qari Jamil, a resident of Chakwal, Mohammad Rizwan alias Shamsul Haq, Zeeshan Jalil alias Khizar, and Mohammad Sarfraz alias Mohammad Khan, residents of Bloody Karachi, Dr Abdul Razzaq, a resident of Lahore, Faisal Ahmed Khan and Osama bin Waheed alias Hadayatullah, residents of Bhakhar, Mohammad Naeem Shakir alias Zubair, a resident of Sheikhupura, and Mohammad Nadeem alias Babu Salahud Din, a resident of Rawalpindi, were given 10 years jail terms each on November 16 last year by the court of a magistrate after they were placed in durance vile by Saddar Barooni police with kaboom and illegal weapons. The high court on March 1 suspended their conviction and granted them bail but they could not be released after Islamabad administration issued their detention orders. The Islamabad High Court on April 6 set aside the detention orders, saying the men had been in jail for the last two years and could not be a threat for public peace. Police claimed arresting the men in January 2009 from a house in Dhoke Lakhan near Dhamial Army Aviation Base, saying they had recovered kaboom and illegal weapons. Talking to Dawn after the decision, Advocate Basharatullah Khan for the appellants said they had pleaded before the court that the nine men were picked by intelligence agencies about three months before they were shown placed in durance vile in January 2009. Different petitions were filed with the high court for the recovery of these men but they were later implicated in two terrorism cases. He said the trial court gave seven years jail for carrying weapons and three years imprisonment for illegal weapons. The court could not give two different sentences for one offence, the lawyer said.

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Pakistain: Nine suspects due to appear in court

2009-01-31

(AKI) - Nine militants suspected of links to Al-Qaeda and the Taliban were due to appear in a Pakistani court on Friday accused over a string of suicide attacks that killed dozens of people and damaged the Danish embassy in the Pakistani capital Islamabad. Police said they arrested the gang earlier this week in the northeastern garrison town of Rawalpindi. The suspects are expected to be charged under anti-terror legislation and held in custody for up to 14 days. The suspects are reportedly wanted chiefly in connection with five high-profile suicide attacks, including one outside the Danish embassy and another on an Italian restaurant in Islamabad. The devastating embassy car bombing on 2 June last year killed six people including a Dane. The blast caused severe damage to a nearby United Nations agency and damaged the embassy building and the residences of the Indian and Dutch ambassadors. The bombing of the popular Luna Caprese Italian restaurant on 15 March last year killed a female Turkish aid worker and injured at least 10 other foreigners including four American Federal Bureau of Investigation or FBI officials. Police also suspect the gang of helping orchestrate a suicide bombing near the Islamabad's Red Mosque on 7 July last year which killed 19 people, mostly policemen and injured dozens. The gang is also accused over the killing on 25 February last year of Pakistan's chief military medical officer and an attack earlier that month against an army medical corps bus. Police claim that gang was involved in logistics and providing suicide bombers for targeted attacks, including one on Independence Day in the eastern city of Lahore on 14 August last year and an earlier attack on the Naval War College, also in Lahore. The Pakistan Observer daily quoted senior police officers as saying the Rawalpindi gang had links to Al-Qaeda's top commander in Pakistan, Usama al-Kini, who was killed in a US missile strike in the South Waziristan tribal region bordering Afghanistan on 1 January. The gang's ring leader, Mohammed Illyas, also known as Qari Jamil, was identified as a former detainee in the US-run military prison for terrorist suspects, at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, according to an unnamed senior police investigator.

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Pakistan busts suicide bomb gang

2009-01-29

PAKISTANI police said today they had arrested a nine-member gang linked to al-Qaeda and the Taliban, who are wanted for multiple suicide bombings, including an attack outside the Danish embassy. "We have busted a gang of nine high-profile terrorists, who were involved in several high-profile attacks in recent times," said Rao Iqbal, police chief in Rawalpindi - the garrison city close to the Pakistani capital, Islamabad. A senior police investigator said the nine were linked to al-Qaeda and Taliban insurgents in Pakistan's lawless tribal areas, which US officials say have become a safe haven for hundreds of extremists fleeing Afghanistan. "They were involved in five high-profile suicide attacks (in Pakistan)," said the investigator, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorised to release the information. He listed the attacks as bombings outside the Danish embassy and an Italian restaurant in Islamabad; an attack on an army medical corps bus and the killing of Pakistan's most senior military officer to die in a post-2001 attack. Six people were killed, including a Dane, in a devastating car bomb attack outside the Danish embassy on June 2. A Turkish woman aid worker died and at least 10 other foreigners were wounded, including several US diplomats, when a bomb exploded at the popular Luna Caprese Italian restaurant in Islamabad on March 15. Police said the gang also helped orchestrate a suicide bombing near Islamabad's Red Mosque on July 7 that killed 19 people, mostly policemen. "They were involved in logistics and providing suicide bombers to hit targets," the senior police official said. Police said the arrests marked the highest number of suspected militants captured from one gang from Rawalpindi since Pakistan joined the US-led "war on terror" after the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States. According to senior police officers, the Rawalpindi nine had links to Usama al-Kini, al-Qaeda's top commander in Pakistan, who was killed in a US missile strike on January 1, in South Waziristan. The suspects were arrested this week when a police intelligence team raided their den, the police official said. He said the ring leader had been identified as Mohammed Illyas, also known as Qari Jamil, a former prisoner held for three years at the US-run Guantanamo Bay detention centre housing alleged suspects in the US-led "war on terror". Mr Iqbal said police recovered 100kg of potassium chloride, 50 detonators and 20kg of ball bearings, which militants pack in suicide vests to maximise carnage. Police officials said the gang also provided suicide bombers for an Independence Day attack in the eastern city of Lahore on August 14 last year and an earlier attack on the Naval War College, also in Lahore. They had confessed to their involvement in these attacks, police said.

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Al-Qaeda kills 2 in North Waziristan

2006-03-13

Suspected Islamic militants shot two tribesmen to death in northwestern Pakistan on suspicion that they were spying for the United States and the Afghan army, according to officials. Villagers spotted the bullet-riddled bodies of the two men on Sunday in different areas in North Waziristan, a day after both disappeared, said Fida Mohammed, a government administer in the region, which borders Afghanistan. Mohammed on Sunday identified one of the victims as Qari Jamilur Rahman, an Islamic cleric, whose body was found near a road outside Miran Shah, the main town in North Waziristan. A note was left with Rahman's body, which said that anyone spying for the Americans will meet the same fate, Mohammed said. Mohammed said the body of the other man, identified as Mohammed Yousaf, was found in Macha Madakhel, a North Waziristan village near the Afghan border. Military officials say the foreign fighters, fighting alongside local supporters, have been attacking security forces and killing tribesmen suspected of cooperating with authorities in the hunt for them. An intelligence official said on condition of anonymity because of the secretive nature of his job that Yousaf was believed to be working for the Afghan National Army.

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