7 more dead as death reigns in Karachi

KARACHI:-

                     Another seven people lost their lives on Saturday in the current wave of violence that began on Wednesday, bringing the death toll in just four days to 80.

The government is struggling for solutions to the worst kind of unrest to sweep the city in 16 years as extra deployments of police and paramilitary officers appear unable to end the trouble.

On Saturday, an Air Force employee, Zafar Ali Nazir, was shot dead near Mona Dental Clinic, Khokharapar. Police said the 36-year-old deceased came to Karachi from Nawabshah to visit his sister residing in Fasial Base. In another incident gunmen intercepted a bus near Malang Hotel, Bakrapiri, in the remits of SITE-A Police and disembarked Nadeem Harron, 28, and shot him dead. Police said Nadeem was a resident of Sector 1-C, Orangi Town. Unidentified gunmen also killed Sakhi Dad, a driver of a route Z bus, near Daba Chock, Islam Nagar, Orangi Town.

In the limits of Joharabad Police, armed men shot dead a man a near Hussainabad, Block 14. Deceased 30 years old Gull Aallam was a resident of Block 10, a slum area. Mochko Police found a bullet-riddled body near the route N-5 bus stop. One more unidentified body was found from Qalandriya Chock, Shahrah-e-Noorjahan. Ibrahim, an injured of Chakra Goth ethnic violence, succumbed to his injures. He was wounded late Friday. In Orangi Town an ambulance was attacked by unknown men, leaving three persons wounded.

Police high ups claimed of arresting two attackers involved in the attack on police van in Chakra Goth, Korangi. But sources said that the injured men, who are affiliated with Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM), were detained during treatment at JPMC and they had been admitted to the hospital an hour before the incident of police van attack.

The current wave of violence started from Lyari on Wednesday after the arrival of mutilated bodies of five men who were abducted, and spread out across the metropolis like a wildfire. Medico legal officers in three major hospitals of Karachi while describing the brutality said that the victims were drilled multiple times, burnt and then their heads were chopped down.

The affected areas included Saeedabad, Balida, Korangi, Orangi, New Karachi and Landhi. Markets in the downtown remained closed on the fifth consecutive day because of the precarious law and order situation.

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At least eight killed in Karachi violence

KARACHI:

                   At least eight people were killed during incidents of violence in Karachi during the past 12 hours, DawnNews reported.
Moreover, 75 suspected individuals had been arrested by law enforcement agencies carrying out search operations in the city.
Earlier on Monday, fear gripped parts of Gulshan-i-Iqbal, Gulistan-i-Jauhar and a few housing societies in Scheme-33 after armed attacks and an exchange of fire killed at least four people and left at least five wounded, police and witnesses said.
The firing incidents that erupted about an hour before sunset continued into Monday night, prompting the police and the Rangers only to cordon off the affected areas and launch a snap checking of motorists.
Showing unawareness about the motive and people behind the firing, police said they had spotted the affected areas and would launch a ‘search operation’.

Corps Commanders concerned about Karachi violence

Top military generals:

Top military generals Monday expressed concerns over the law and order situation in the port city of Karachi and its ramifications and implications on the country's economy.

The Corps Commanders' Conference, held at General Headquarters in Rawalpindi with Army Chief General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani in the chair, discussed the security situation in the country in general and Karachi in particular, said a statement issued by ISPR.

The statement said that the army commanders expected that the measures recently undertaken by the government would help redress the situation in the city.

According to the statement, the participants of the conference were also briefed in detail regarding the ongoing law enforcement operations against the militants in the tribal regions of Kurram and Mohmand within the perspective of evolving security dynamic.

Local watchers said that it is very rare in Pakistan when army commanders make statements on the country's law and order situation, but the recent wave of killings in Karachi, also the commercial hub of Pakistan, has prompted the army commanders' statement.

In July alone, over 300 people were reportedly killed in Karachi as the result of ethnic and political violence. Nearly 100 vehicles were also torched in different parts of the city over the past few weeks.

To quench the violence in the city, the Pakistani government has taken a series of measures including deployment of additional security forces in the city and making concessions to the demands raised by some of the parties based in Karachi