According to eyewitness reports, at least five armed men reached the Imambargah Hurr in Golden Town (Al-Falah, Malir) during Fajr prayers. Two of them walked in and sprayed the congregation of faithful with bursts from their automatic weapons. An eyewitness told police that the gunmen continued firing for at least three minutes and then escaped through the by-lanes of the area on foot.
Several persons sustained bullet injuries while eight of them died on the spot. On of the injured died later in the hospital. The place of the incident presented a gory sight where with several people was lying in pools of blood.
Edhi ambulances shifted most of the bodies and the injured persons to the Jinnah Post-Graduate Medical Center (JPMC) Hospital, while some of the injured were shifted to PNS Rahat in Karsaz.
An emergency was declared at the JPMC where the bodies and majority of the injured were shifted. The condition of another two of the injured persons is said to be critical, hospital sources said. An uneasy calm was prevailing in Al-Falah area where contingents of police and law enforcement agencies were deployed to thwart a possible "reaction". The city areas, reckoned to be vulnerable in view of sectarian bias, have also been taken over by the police as precautionary measure.
Allama Hasan Turabi, President, TJP Sindh, told The STAR these killings were not due to Shia-Sunni conflict but "some forces were trying to create a misunderstanding and fan hatred between the two sects." He suspected the Sipah-i-Sahaba Pakistan (SSP) may be involved in the gory incident.
The Namaz-i-Janaza of the deceased will be offered at Hussaini Imambargah, Sadat Colony after Juma prayers.
KARACHI, March 26, 2001: The
Administrative Judge of Anti-Terrorism Courts for Karachi
Division, Justice Shabbir Ahmad ordered the release of an
accused involved in Masjid-e-Hur massacre case after
police submitted a report under Section 497 CrPC on
Monday. Al-Falah Police arrested
accused Muhammed Saeed on March 2. Acting Administrative
Judge Arshad Noor Khan remanded him to police custody on
March 3 up to March 8. The remand was extended up to
March 15 and then up to March 20 when the interim challan
of the accused was submitted under Section 302, 324 Qisas
and Diyat, 7 and 8 ATA and Section 34 PPC and the accused
was remanded to judicial custody. Police later sought
three adjournments for submitting final challan, while in
the meantime police allegedly recovered a Kalashnikov on
the disclosure of the accused, claimed to be the weapon
used in the incident on October 11, 1999 and another case
of Section 13-E was lodged against the accused. The police, however,
submitted a report under Section 497 CrPC along with an
opinion of a PDSP on Monday. The PDSP opined that the
case against the accused rested on the statements of
three witnesses Pir Bazullah, Zia and Shafqat. The former
two had left the country and the third witness Shafqat
was not coming forth to identify the accused, therefore,
it would be futile to challan the accused. The bench perusing the
report and opinion of the PDSP approved the application
ordering that the accused might be set free if not
required in any other case. According to
prosecution, some unidentified gunmen opened fire at
people offering Fajr prayers in Masjid-e-Hur (Imambargah)
and killed Syed Ejaz Hussain, Jamshed Abbas, Syed Hasnain
Naqvi, Nazeer Ahmed, Amjad Ali, Muhammed Nawaz, Syed
Imtiaz Hussain, Syed Safdar Abbas Naqvi, Zulfiqar Naqvi
and Shabbir Ahmed, while Ghulam Hasnain, Tasawwur
Hussain, Syed Waris Ali, Altaf Hussain and Matloob
Hussain sustained injuries. The interim challan
showed Dilawar alias Dildar alias Tufail, Yusuf,
Ata-ur-Rahman alias Naeem alias Bukhari, Muhammed Umar
and Hussain as absconders.
KARACHI, Oct 01: Nine persons were killed and at least ten injured when a group of unidentified armed men resorted to indiscriminate firing in an imambargah in Al-Falah area early this morning at Fajr prayers.
ATC orders release of accused
Terrorism case accused remanded to judicial custody
KARACHI Sep 8 2001: Justice Shabbir Ahmed, Administrative Judge of ATCs for Karachi Division, on Saturday remanded accused Dildar Hussain alias Dilawar and Saeed to judicial custody till September 15.
The accused, alleged to be terrorist of a religious outfit, were booked in the Masjid-e-Hur carnage of 1999 in which ten persons died. Earlier, both the accused were produced by the Al-Falah police with request for further physical remand and extension of time for submission of final challan.
The judge allowing time to police for final challan remanded the accused to jail custody. The same court also refused to accept a challan in a dacoity case and directed the police to submit the same before a sessions court.
Earlier, SI Asghar Sarhindi produced the accused Wali Muhammed, Shahnawaz, Saleem, Irfan and Khan in custody. The accused were arrested after an encounter with police while fleeing from the house of Adnan Azmat after their dacoity bid was foiled. Justice Shabbir held that under the new amendments to the Anti-Terrorism Act, 1999, the case is not triable by an ATC.