Tag: Killers

KARACHI - The Karachi police have reportedly identified the men involved in the killing of Akhter Hussain, the vice chairman of Muhajir Qaumi Movement (Afaq), and his two aides, it was learnt on Saturday.
A Karachi police official said the suspects were being searched for and would be arrested soon. Hussain and his two aides were killed on Shaheed-e-Millat Road near Bahadurabad on April 12. A police mobile van was present in the surroundings when the incident took place and gave

KARACHI - Five men allegedly involved in the murder of journalist Wali Khan Babar were sent on police remand till the 18th by an anti-terrorism court (ATC), but they will have to be produced before the court at the next hearing.
The accused, including Shahrukh alias Mani, Naveed alias Polka, Shakil Malik, Faisal Mehmood alias Nafsiyati and Syed Muhammad Ali Rizvi, were produced before an ATC on Friday, with the police seeking their physical remand for further interrogation. The

KARACHI - Law enforcement agencies have arrested 11 of the most-wanted target killers, who are responsible for killing over 100 citizens, disclosed Interior Minister Rehman Malik on Monday at a joint press conference with Sindh Chief Minister (CM) Qaim Ali Shah at the CM House. The press conference was held after a meeting to deliberate the law and order situation in Sindh, particularly in Karachi. The top brass of the Sindh Police and Pakistan Rangers- Sindh as well as others

KARACHI - Interior Minister Rehman Malik's claim that the government has arrested the killers of Benazir Bhutto Shaheed, three years after the assassination, is bound to be false and designed only to abate mounting pressure on President Asif Ali Zardari, argued Sindh National Front (SNF) Chairman Mumtaz Ali Bhutto on Saturday.
"What about the case filed against Musharraf? And what about the case filed by his government against two police officers? Rehman Malik's latest claim not

KARACHI - The Crime Investigation Department (CID) police on Monday claimed to have arrested three alleged target killers involved in murdering more than 30 persons including political activists. Capital City Police Officer (CCPO) Saud Mirza, while addressing a press conference at his office, said that a police party led by CID SSP Fayaz Khan arrested the three alleged killers associated with the Mudassir Langra alias Chief group in an encounter, while three others managed to

KASUR - Additional District and Sessions Judge Jazeela Aslam awarded death sentence to six accused and life imprisonment to two accused in a triple-murder case. Reportedly, the accused shot dead Haji Saabbaar Hussain, Haider Ali and Sher Muhammad while injured four people by firing at village Bakar Kay in the jurisdiction of Khudian Police Station.
The judge awarded death sentence to six people Rehmat, Sarja, Ahmad Din, Munir Hussain, Hassan Ali and Sujja while two people Hassan

KARACHI - Interior Minister Rehman Malik claims to have put an end to targeted killings in Karachi but at least 182 people, including political activists, have been killed in the two months of 2011. Law enforcement agencies claimed to have arrested "53 target killers," but a majority of them were released, Pakistan Today has learnt.
According to the data collected by Pakistan Today, 109 people were killed in January while another 73 were gunned down in February, with 24 targeted

ISLAMABAD - The investigators probing assassination of federal minister Shabaz Bhatti Sunday said they have found 'tangible clues', which they believe could help them trace main culprits. Police sources said that the investigation team had obtained CCTV footage from a hidden camera installed at the office of a travelling agency close to murder site. They said they had obtained registration plate for car used by assailants and that they had impounded the vehicle from Rawalpindi.

ISLAMABAD - Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani on Friday reiterated the government's resolve to bring to book those behind the assassination of Minorities' Affairs Minister Shahbaz Bhatti. At the eve of funeral prayers held for the late Bhatti at a local church, Gilani said, "It is a sad day. I was totally shocked (on the murder of Shahbaz Bhatti), because he was not only a great leader, was not only allied with the PPP, but was a friend and worker of Benazir Bhutto."
The prime

ATHENS - Greek police clashed with protesters on Wednesday as around 100,000 workers, pensioners and students marched to parliament in protest at austerity policies aimed at helping Greece cope with a huge debt crisis. Riot police fired scores of rounds of teargas and flash bombs at protesters hurling petrol bombs, choking the main Syndagma square with smoke and sending crowds of striking protesters running for cover.
Public and private sector employees' 24-hour strike grounded

LAHORE - In a new development in the Raymond Davis case, Punjab Law Minister Rana Sanaullah said on Saturday that the US national, involved in a double murder case, has disclosed names of people traveling in the car that ran over a motorcyclist at the Qartaba Chowk some days ago.
Talking to a private TV channel, he said that the car was parked at the US Consulate and police know about its number plate. "On failing to produce the car and its riders, those behind the case will be

KARACHI - The release of the alleged attackers and nominated accused in the Shershah scrap market carnage case was secured under an understanding and pre-planned arrangement between coalition partners Pakistan People's Party (PPP) and Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM), Pakistan Today has learnt.
Nine named accused were acquitted by an administrative judge of an Anti Terrorism Court two days ago, after the complainant of the case could not recognise the accused in an identification

LAHORE - Former PM Benazir Bhutto's killers would soon be exposed and punished, Punjab Governor Latif Khosa said on Friday. He was addressing Pakistan People's Party (PPP) workers after inaugurating PPP Lahore chapter's office and distributing cheques among workers at the Aiwan-e-Iqbal.
Khosa said that the country's history was full of sacrifices and it was because of sacrifices of PPP workers that the party was ruling the country. He said that the PPP was committed to eliminate

KARACHI - Sixteen journalists belonging to an ethnic group are on the hit list of people involved in targeted killing in Karachi, Pakistan Today has learnt.
Ten of them work with newspapers and six are with the electronic media. Intelligence agencies have sent the list of their names to the Sindh Home Department.
A high-ranking official of the Interior Ministry made a telephone call to a journalist of a private TV channel and told him that he is on the hit-list of the

LAHORE - The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) on Friday expressed it concern and sorrow over killing of private TV channel reporter Wali Khan Babar in Karachi and demanded a full investigation in order to bring his killers to justice. The HRCP said that it was grieved at murder of yet another journalist in Pakistan and expressed sympathies and conveyed condolences to Babar's family and colleagues. The fact that Babar was the second Pakistan journalist killed in 2011

ISLAMABAD - Despite a lapse of three years, the assassination of Benazir Bhutto remains a mystery that has led many to cast aspersions on the government sincerity to apprehend the killers.
Immediately after her assassination, it was believed that Pervez Musharraf, the former military dictator, was insincere in conducting the probe, as some elements of his regime might turn out to be part of the assassination. For many, the suspicion fortified when Musharraf reluctantly allowed

LAHORE - Ghaziabad Police failed to arrest the killers of a trader who killed for the ransom a month ago. Relatives of the deceased requested to the authorities for the justice.
A trader of the Karachi, Muhammad Naseem came to Lahore to meet his relatives where the accused Salman, Ajmal and others kidnapped him for the ransom. Later, they killed Naseem and throw him at deserted area.
Relatives requested police high-ups to take the stern action to arrest the accused.