At least six persons including an officer of the Karachi Electric Supply Company (KESC) were killed and five others injured in a fresh spate of target killings in different localities of the city on Tuesday.
According to police, Deputy General Manager KESC Ali Imran Jaffry was on his way to office when unidentified attackers on a motorbike ambushed his car near Saifee College in North Nazimabad. As a result of the firing, Imran died on the spot while the culprits managed to escape.
Meanwhile KESC spokesperson strongly condemned the killing of Mr Jaffry and said that the deceased used to carry out operational work of KESC. The spokesperson demanded of the government to investigate the incident and bring the killers to justice.
Jafferi’s body was sent to Abbasi Shaheed Hospital for post mortem. In 5-D area of Sarjani Town, unidentified gunmen kidnapped and shot the man dead, identified as Naseer. The deceased was running a tyre shop in the area. In another incident, unidentified persons opened fire and killed a 28 year old man in Godhra area when he was sitting outside his house. Police said that the deceased belonged to a banned organization.
In Khawaja Ajmernagri, motorcyclists opened fire and killed a Special Investigation Unit official identified as Nisar Abbasi.
In yet another incident of firing, a man named Muhammad Ali was shot dead in Chakiwara area. Police termed the incident a result of old enmity while some unidentified persons killed a man in Manzoor Colony.
Meanwhile, the police rescued injured Sheraz Baloch from Gul Muhammad Line in critical condition. The man was kidnapped a couple of days earlier from Bahar Colony. He was shifted to Civil Hospital Karachi for treatment. At least four persons were injured in separate firing incidents in Sohrab Goth, Pak Colony and other areas of the city.
Interior secretaries, LEAs under SHC hammer
The Sindh High Court (SHC) on Tuesday issued notices to federal and provincial secretaries of Interior as well as the law enforcement agencies in target killing incident case in Karachi.
A two-member bench of SHC comprising acting Chief Justice Maqbool Baqir and Justice Aqil Abbasi was hearing the petition filed by Iqbal Kazmi over increasing incidents of target killings in Karachi. During the hearing, the petitioner told the court that various applications had been submitted from 2009 in the SHC for hearing the ever deteriorating law and order situation in the city but of no avail as those applications were still pending. He urged the court to resume hearing on the pending applications. Kazmi also pleaded the court that the government had failed to overcome increasing target killing incidents in the city while lives and properties of citizens were not secure. He said that so far at least 773 innocent people had been killed in target killing incidents only in current year: at least 98 people were shot dead in January, 115 in February, 117 in March, 165 in April, 182 in May and at least 96 in June. The court accepting the constitutional application for hearing issued notices to federal secretary Interior, Sindh home secretary, law enforcement agencies and SHOs of at least 54 concerned police stations located in the city.
