As many as three people including a local office-bearer of the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) were killed in the city’s old area of Lyari on the wee hours of Thursday morning.
According to police, the gun attack incident took place in Lyari area of Chakiwara moments before midnight when some unknown assailants shot three people to death.
The PPP claimed that one of the deceased, Inayatullah, was a party office-bearer and two others – Muhammed Haneef and Muhammed Ejaz – were well-wishers of the party.
The PPP leader said the attackers forcefully barged into a clinic where the victims were gunned down, adding that at least six party workers were assassinated within last five days.
According to the rescue sources, the deceased and some injured people were shifted to civil hospital. The triple killings ignited fresh tension in several areas of Lyari.
Reacting overnight to the gory incident, the spokesman of Bilawal House, Ejaz Durrani, remarked that the rival forces had made the PPP’s stronghold Lyari as their target.
The spokesman further said that these hostile forces subsume religious fanatics, ethnic agitators and Taliban agents, adding that the anti-Pakistan forces forged a grand alliance against the PPP. He also claimed that triple killings of jiyalas in Lyari was a consequence of October 18 rally.
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The court was also informed that certain forest lands were wrongly allotted by the Board of Revenue Sindh. Therefore, the court directed BOR’s senior member as well as the chief secretary to immediately look into the matter and pursue the same vigorously so that all such illegal and unauthorized allotments be cancelled immediately.
