KARACHI: Sub-inspector shot dead

Sub-inspector shot dead in Karachi
04-28-2001

KARACHI, April 28: Syed Hashim Raza, aged 27, a sub-inspector in the health department of the District Municipal Council, West, was outside his office in Orangi Town's sector 11 1/2, when two armed men, riding on a motorcycle, appeared there and opened fire on him and sped away. The victim was critically wounded and taken to a hospital where he died.

Police claimed that victim was a resident of Ancholi Society in his late-20s and was posted in the sanitary department of the DMC. He was assigning duties to his subordinates when two assassins, riding on a motorbike, appeared there.

"The slayers ordered him to stand by a wall and then they pumped bullets into his body," an eyewitness told police. "He died on the spot while the killers fled the scene." Some of the people present there informed the police who removed the corpse to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital.

DIG Police Tariq Jamil, when contacted, said, "There could be some political, ethnic or sectarian angle behind the killing of Shamim Raza."

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PESHAWAR: Imamia Students Organization threatens protest movement

PESHAWAR, April 28: The Imamia Students Organization has urged the Kurram Agency's political authorities to refrain from imposing fine on the innocent and arresting them for the murder of an assistant political agent , killed outside his office on April 14, by unknown killers, or else the ISO will launch a countrywide movement against the unfair attitude of the authorities.

Speaking at a news conference here at the Peshawar Press Club, ISO divisional president Habib Hussain and others demanded of the government to transfer the commandant militia force and the political agent of the agency.

The ISO leaders read out a list of accusations and held the slain APA, Masood Khattak, responsible for the worsening law and order situation and for backing sectarian killings in the agency.

They claimed that the political authorities had given a week's time to the Tauri and Bangash tribes to hand over the killers of the APA, or else the authorities would arrest 10 people from each village and impose a fine of Rs10 million on each tribe.

They said the authorities had arrested the killer of the APA and grilled him about the motive of the crime. The alleged killer had changed his statement for the eighth time so for, they added.

The ISO leaders claimed that the APA had been involved in venal practices and had harboured enmity with a large number of people which resulted in his murder.

They alleged that the APA was also involved in the smuggling of flour and other rackets. He was also involved in sectarian killings.

They claimed that absconder Ishaq and Bakht Jamal, who were involved in terrorist activities, had the backing of the APA.

They alleged that Afghan refugees, belonging to the Mangal tribe, were involved in the sectarian killings. These people had been the henchmen of the late APA, who used them in smuggling, they added.

The APA, they said, had Dildar Hussain and Gulab Hussain killed on March 31 in Hangu.

SSP leaders' names in murder case dropped

KARACHI, March 19 2003: Two leaders of the defunct Sipah-i-Sahaba Pakistan, Karachi, were discharged on Wednesday in a sectarian murder case by an anti-terrorism court for want of evidence against them.

Judge Arshad Noor Khan of the ATC-3 ordered that the names of Maulana Abdul Ghafoor Nadeem and Maulana Ilyas Zubair, the president and the general secretary of the banned Sipah-i-Sahaba Pakistan, Karachi, be deleted from the final chargesheet as the investigation officer said there was no evidence against the two.

The case pertained to the killing of one Shamim Raza on April 28, 2001, in Orangi Town.

Inspector Hameedullah Khan Niazi, who was summoned by the court, stated that the prime accused, Imran Islam, had disclosed that he had killed the victim after hearing the audio cassettes, containing fiery speeches.

When the judge asked if the police had any other evidence against the two leaders, the policeman replied in the negative.

The judge ordered the production of accused Imran Islam on March 26 when his trial would formally commence.

REF:http://www.dawn.com/2003/03/20/local46.htm

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