Tag: Killings

Lawyers as well as the Young Doctors Association (YDA) observed Black Day on Thursday to condemn the May 12, 2007 killings in Karachi in...

The Human Right Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) Saturday expressed grave concern over the recovery of the dead bodies of missing persons in Balochistan and...

ISLAMABAD - Awami National Party (ANP) President Asfandyar Wali Khan on Sunday said no worker of his party was involved in the ongoing targeted killings in Karachi and all allegations in over the issue were baseless.
Talking to journalists at the launching ceremony of membership drive of his party, Asfand said no worker of the ANP was involved in the series of target killings and if found guilty, he should be hanged. He said only one person belonging to the ANP had been arrested

JERUSALEM - Israeli police have arrested two Palestinian teenagers on suspicion of stabbing to death a Jewish couple and three of their children while they slept in a West Bank settlement, a police spokesman said on Sunday.
The killings on the night of March 11 in Itamar in the occupied West Bank caused shock in Israel and drew condemnation from the Palestinian Authority that exercises limited self-rule in the area. Police said Amjad Awwad, 19, and Hakim Awwad, 18, from Awarta, a

KARACHI - The target killing spree which had begun on 13th April entered its fourth intermittent day, targeting 8 including three women and 14 injured.
Majority of those killed are said to be political activists killed or abducted by 'unknown persons', while a suicide by a policeman has also been reported, bringing the toll to 38 in four days.
After the ousting of vociferous Provincial Home Minister Zulfiqar Ali Mirza, the 'coalition partners' have heaved a sigh of relief,

KARACHI - Incidents of target killings have reduced in the city and action against criminals involved in targeted killings and extortions is being accelerated to get more results, said Federal Interior Minister Rehman Malik on Thursday.
He expressed these views while talking to journalists at the office of Sindh Election Commission, where he had arrived along with Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah and leaders of coalition parties of the PPP-led Sindh government, to file

KARACHI - Eighty-one Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) activists and sympathisers have been killed since January 2011, arising restlessness and concerns in the minds of MQM workers and people of Karachi about the unremitting acts of terrorism against the MQM, expressed the MQM Coordination Committee members in a press conference on Thursday.
Speaking at the press conference in Nine Zero, MQM leader Raza Haroon said that on Tuesday, armed terrorists had killed Mehmoodabad Sector

KARACHI - To eliminate targeted killing from the city, the government has adopted a two-pronged strategy under which it is contacting political parties and also taking administrative measures, said Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah. He said this at a press conference after presiding over a meeting regarding the law and order situation at the Chief Minister's House on Wednesday. This was the first meeting of the chief minister holding the portfolio of the Home Department, after

FAISAL ABAD - The party which has been involved in the assassination of hundreds of innocent people in Karachi is now making tall claims and hollow promises to protect the people of the Punjab, said Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) central executive committee member and Public Accounts Committee (PAC) former chairman Hamza Shahbaz on Tuesday. Commenting on the political campaign of Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) in the Punjab, he said: "It is ironical that those who openly use

KARACHI - News of targeted violence are often splashed across headlines but journalists reporting on the issue often fail to connect the phenomenon with disputes over land, argued Shehri-Citizens for a Better Environment (CBE) Secretary-General Amber Alibhai on Wednesday at a workshop organised at a local hotel.
"Land and targeted killings are connected, but reporting of this issue lacks substance and context," Alibhai said during her welcome address, explaining that in a large

ISLAMABAD - Criticising Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani on Saturday, Senator Shahid Bugti said the prime minister's reply in the Upper House to extra-judicial killings in Balochistan only rubbed salt into the wounds of Baloch people. "The prime minister did not reply to our concerns on extra-judicial killings in Balochistan and said he had included people from Balochistan into his entourage for India," Bugti said, adding that it was not an answer to the question of extra-judicial

ISLAMABAD - All Parties Hurriyet Conference (APHC) leader, Nayeem Ahmed Khan has said that the Indian administration is responsible for the killing of over 118 innocent people during last year's upsurge in the kashmir territory.
Nayeem Ahmed Khan addressing a public gathering at Kreeri in Pattan said "The killing of unarmed youth is a black chapter in Kashmir
history,"Kashmir Media Service reported.
The APHC leader assured the people that their sacrifices would yield

KARACHI - At least 17 people were reported killed in various incidents of targeted killing in another violence-marred day in Karachi on Friday. The dead include, Sabeeh Khan, a nephew of Aamir Khan, prominent leader of Mohajir Qaumi Movement. He was attacked near Jauhar Morr.
In other incidents, Anwar Hussain was killed in Landhi near Mohammaden Ground when unknown armed men opened fire on him. A bullet-riddled body of a young man, identified as Adnan, was found near Azizabad

LAHORE - The release of Raymond Davis is just a green light for more killings and assassinations by the US government and the CIA in Pakistan, Robert Anderson, a former CIA operative has said in an interview with Talkhaba.
Anderson, who operated in Vietnam around 60 years ago, talked about undercover work the CIA did back then and the similarities with it now in terms of running operatives like Raymond Davis working in Pakistan. "The pillage and slaughter of Pakistanis will

SIALKOT - Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan Amir Syed Munawar Hassan has said that both Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) and Pakistan People's Party (PPP) are directly involved in the uncontrolled assassinations of innocent people in Karachi. While talking to the journalists, he said the government had miserably failed in controlling the target killings thus it should tender apology to the nation. He said that federal government, Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) and Punjab government played

KARACHI - The wave of violence in Karachi continued on Thursday as another 11 people, including an activist of Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) and a member of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement, were killed across the city.
Imran Akhtar, 28, son of Akhtar Ali, a JI activist, was shot dead by unidentified gunmen near Sindhi Hotel in New Karachi as he was sitting near his brother's shop. In a similar incident, an MQM activist was gunned down and another was injured near Qasba Morr in the Orangi

KARACHI - Targeted killings claimed seven more lives across Karachi on Wednesday. Rahat Fayyaz was killed in Peerabad area of Banaras, while an unidentified man was gunned down in Garden police precincts.
Thirty-year-old Muhammad Saleem was killed near Khadda Market on Haji Ismail Road in Baghdadi police precincts. In another incident, unidentified men sprayed Shahzad Memon with bullets near Hussainabad's Koko Park in Azizabad area.
Also, unidentified attackers killed Ghulam