Govt to launch surgical ops in 9 troubled areas

The Sindh cabinet has decided to carry out surgical operations in nine affected areas of the city as at least 11 more people, including four officials of the Karachi Water and Sewerage Board (KWSB), were killed on Monday.
As Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani and his team – Interior Minister Rehman Malik and Minister for Religious Affairs Khurshid Shah – started reviewing the city’s law and order, four officials of the KWSB were killed in the Garden area near the police headquarters.
According to police, four armed men riding two motorcycles entered into the sub-office of the water utility agency and resorted to indiscriminate firing, killing four officials on the spot.
The deceased were identified as Assistant Executive Engineer Anwarullah, XEN Chaudhry Altaf and clerks, Arif Usman and Abdul Qadir. Two bystanders, whose identity could not be ascertained, were seriously injured. In another incident, a body was found lying on the rooftop of a building in Gulshan-e-Iqbal Block 6 area. The deceased was identified as Mehtab Khan with the help of his identity card found in his pocket.
Separately, unidentified armed men fired at Naveed Abbas in Korangi area. Police said two motorcyclists intercepted Abbas in Zia Colony and opened fire on him, leaving him injured. He was taken to Jinnah Postgraduate and Medical Center (JPMC) where he breathed his last.
In yet another incident, police found two bodies of young boys stuffed in gunny bags from Landhi and PIB area.
A body of an unidentified boy was found in Ismail Goth near 89 area of Landhi while a body of another, Abdul Karim, was recovered from PIB Colony near a railway gate. Another body stuffed in a gunny bag was found near the National Stadium ground. Two young men were gunned down on Jehangir Road No 2. However, their identities could not be ascertained. All petrol and CNG stations were closed down and incidents of arson were reported as the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) gave a strike call for today (Tuesday).
Unidentified armed men took to the streets and resorted to aerial firing in Malir, Shah Faisal Colony, Jamshed Road, PIB Colony, Gulistan-e-Jauhar, North Nazimabad, Saddar, Lyari, Sohrab Goth, Quaidabad, Landhi and Korangi areas.
A group of armed men reportedly torched a passenger bus on Main Gulistan-e-Jauhar Chowrangi. However, the report could not be confirmed.
Gilani meetings: Earlier, addressing the Sindh cabinet, Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani issued directives to officials concerned to take stern action against those responsible for the killings in Karachi without taking their political affiliations into consideration.
Later, Gilani headed to the Governor’s House to meet representatives of the businessmen community. However, the businessmen had left without meeting him in protest for having been made to wait for over two hours.
They said the government was not sincere in maintaining the peace in the city, and “now we will have to make arrangements for our security ourselves”.