The people of Lyari attacked the personnel of the law-enforcement agencies (LEA) on Sunday following the killing of a notorious gangster in Chakiwara during an encounter with a team of police and Criminal Investigation Department (CID) personnel.
Enraged residents took to the streets and attacked the law enforcers, who were present in the area for maintaining law and order situation, with petrol bombs.
The residents blocked the roads for all vehicular traffic by burning tyres, and in some areas, police personnel faced strong reaction from the locals when the law enforcers tried to launch an operation.
City Town superintendent of police (SP) said that a police team was on patrol in Chakiwara when it came under attack from members of the Lyari gang war.
He said that the police retaliated, killing the notorious gangster Saqib. His accomplice Kashif was arrested and his pistol confiscated, the SP added.
Briefing the journalists after the encounter, CID chief Chaudhry Aslam said that Saqib had a criminal record and was wanted by the police and the CID in a number of cases of murder, kidnapping, kidnapping for ransom and bank robberies.
However, the residents of Chakiwara staged a protest against Saqib’s killing at the hands of the LEA personnel.
Some demonstrators surrounded the Chakiwara police station and hurled stones inside it to express their anger.
Police tried to disperse the protesters with aerial firing, but the incensed demonstrators retaliated by hurling petrol bombs at the law enforcers.
In a separate incident, a 22-year-old man was killed in Sohrab Goth’s Al-Asif Square. The victim was identified as Shakirullah.
MEETING: Interior Minister Rehman Malik has given the political parties 24 hours to remove their flags from official buildings and public places.
Speaking to the media after attending a high-level meeting at the Chief Minister’s House, Malik said that if the flags are not removed within 24 hours, then they would be removed by the police.
The interior minister said that he has already met with the leadership of the Awami National Party and that he would be meeting with the Muttahida Qaumi Movement leaders during the night.
Malik stressed that action would be taken under the Anti-Terrorism Act against all those who have been forcing shopkeepers to close their shops across Karachi.
During the meeting, it was also decided that indiscriminate action would be taken against criminal elements in the metropolitan.
The Sindh inspector general of police, who also attended the meeting, informed the participants that certain groups within the political parties are involved in target killings in the city.
Lyari protests killing of ‘criminal’
