As many as eight persons were killed and two others injured in separate violence incidents in the city on Wednesday.
Two cops identified as Mohammad Hussain, 35, son of Mian Manzoor, and Asghar, 35, were shot dead by unknown persons within the jurisdiction of Samanabad police station near Sohrab Goth. The bodies were shifted to Abbasi Shaheed Hospital (ASH) for an autopsy.
The slain policemen were posted at Samanabad police station and they were killed in the line of duty.
In another incident, an old person, Zameen Gul, aged about 50, was shot dead by unidentified armed men at Ittehad Town. The body was shifted to Civil Hospital Karachi (CHK) for medico-legal formality.
Yet in another incident, a youth, Abdul Latif, 20, son of Abdul Kareem, resident of Pahar Ganj, was shot dead by unknown gunmen near Pahar Ganj in North Nazimabad when he was in his shop. He was shifted to ASH for an autopsy.
According to police sources, two motorcyclists opened fires on his shop, and the slain belonged to a religious party. Separately, a man, Zar Shah, 35, son of Sher Shah, resident of Landhi, was gunned down near Green City in Quaidabad, Landhi. The body was brought to Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Center (JPMC) for medico-legal formality. Meanwhile, a man, Salim Uddin, 48, son of Ahmed Uddin, resident of North Nazimabad, was gunned down by unknown armed men near Bangali Para, Gabol Town in New Karachi. The body was shifted to ASH for an autopsy. The motive behind killing could not be ascertained yet.
Furthermore, the body of tortured woman, Feroza, 45, wife of Aleem Waris, was found in Orangi Town, Sector 14-B. She was shifted to ASH for medico-legal formalities. The motive behind the killing could not be ascertained yet.
Moreover, a youth, aged about 22-year, was gunned down by unknown armed men near 4-K Chowrangi in Surjani Town. The body was shifted to ASH for an autopsy.
Two men, Nisar Ahmed, 60, son of Fazal, and Sajjad, 38, son of Saleem, were shot and injured by unknown armed men near Muslim Khatri Charitable Hospital in New Karachi. The injured were rushed to ASH for treatment.
/o:p><� n<��� �� >Dubbing it as an engine of economic growth, Karachi, he reminded the premier, was the industrial, commercial and financial hub of the country.
Drawing over 25-30 percent of country’s Gross Domestic Product, the city was contributing in the national kitty more than 65 percent revenue, about 30 percent of manufacturing, more than 90 percent of financial trade, around 95 percent of the country’s sea-borne trade by providing access through Karachi Port and Port Qasim.
Shah also reminded the prime minister that the 18th Constitutional Amendment had ‘categorically’ empowered the provincial governments to have meaningful contribution while deciding the distribution of energy resources.
“The province of Sindh contributes more than 65 percent of the gas being produced in the country, whereas, it consumes less than 35 percent,” he said.
Therefore, the chief minister said, it was a fundamental right of the citizens of Sindh, particularly Karachi, to have due share from the national power pool under Article 158 of the Constitution.
He said while the 650 MW was hardly 4-5 percent of total national grid capacity, Karachi would emerge as a “power hub” for export of power to other parts of the country after materialization of the upcoming projects on coal and nuclear being undertaken in the city and its adjoining areas. “The Government of Sindh and KE’s future expansion plans would enable it to attain self-sufficiency for power by 2020,” he said.
“I request you to direct the Ministry of Water and Power/NTDC to continue to support Karachi and parts of rural Sindh and Balochistan with a capacity of 650 MWs from the national grid,” Shah said.
Assumingly, a KE official said, if disrupted the shortage of 650MW would increase load-shedding hours at least by 12 hours only for the industrial sector. “All the load-shedding exemptions would be ended,” he added.
However, the official said, any such disconnection by the NTDC was totally out of question. “An industrial association has brought a court’s stay order against any such withdrawal,” he said.
