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Tuesday, November 17, 2009
By our correspondents
Karachi
The Awami Colony police have registered a murder case against an alleged drug-peddler, Baba Ballakh Sher, for killing a middle aged woman, also an alleged drug-peddler, whose body was recovered from her house on Monday.
The two-day old body of Ameena, 45, wife of Muhammad Iqbal, was recovered from her residence when her daughter with the help of some neighbours broke the lock of her mother’s residence and found her dead with a bullet mark in her head.
The deceased’s daughter Samina, told the police that her mother used to sell heroin and some other drugs to earn her livelihood after the death of her husband as she had nobody else to support her.
“Last Friday my mother came to visit me and said that Sher, another drug peddler, had threatened to kill her as she was causing him loss in his business by selling drugs in the area where he operates,” Samina told the police.
The Awami Colony police official, Sub-Inspector Noroz Badshah, told The News that they were informed of the killing by the victim’s daughter.
“According to Ameena’s daughter, her mother lived alone and used to sell heroin to earn her livelihood,” SI Noroz Badshah said.
Sources in the medico-legal section of JPMC said that the deceased sustained a single fatal bullet in her head which went through her skull and she died on the spot.
The Awami Colony police have registered a case 559/09 under section 302 against Sher on the complaint of Samina. However, the accused could not be arrested.
In a separate incident, a man was beaten to death with wooden clubs in Toori Bangash Society in the limits of Iqbal Market police station in the wee hours of Monday.
The Iqbal Market police said that the victim Hairbat Khan, 40, son of Khayyal Afzal, hailed from Khyber Agency tribal area, was beaten to death with wooden clubs and a sharp metallic object. The incident took place near last bus stop of route No G-13 in Toori Bangash Society.
SHO Iqbal Market police said that initial investigation revealed that the deceased was killed over some personal enmity. He was a driver by profession, married and used to live in Bilal Colony, Korangi, he added.
The Iqbal Market police have registered a case no 33/09, under section 302/34 Pakistan Penal Code (PPC) on the complaint of the victim’s brother-in-law.
Meanwhile, director of a local NGO was gunned down on Monday, apparently in act of target killing in Landhi 89 area in the limits of Quaidabad police station.
The victim, Ibrahim Shah, 40, son of Janab Shah, was the resident of the same area and used to run a NGO named ‘Young Generation’, police said.
The incident took place on Monday morning when the victim was sitting in his office at Lane No 89, Landhi where two unidentified suspects riding a bike came over and opened fire on him before fleeing, the investigation officer (IO) of the case, SI Sadaqat Ali said.
The victim sustained bullet injuries and was immediately shifted to the JPMC where he succumbed to his injuries.
Although it appears to be an incident of target killing but initial investigation suggests that he was not affiliated to any political party, the police officer said.On the other hand, Mohajir Qaumi Movement-Haqiqi (MQM-H) sources said the victim was a sympathiser of the party.
In a separate incident, a taxi driver was gunned down over some family dispute near Liaquatabad No 10 bus stop in the limits of Sharifabad police station on Monday at noon, police said.
SHO Sharifabad police station, Chaudhry Azam, said that the victim, Khizar Abbas, 24, hailed from Muzaffar Garh, Punjab. He had come to Karachi recently to earn his livelihood and was working as a taxi driver.
He said that the incident took place at the main Liaquatabad area bus stop, when two unidentified motorcyclists wearing helmets, intercepted him and shot at him several times. Police found four bullet shells from the crime scene.
The police official said that he was unmarried and used to live with relatives in Orangi. They did not take his mobile phone or cash, which showed that it was an act of target killing, he added.
He said that the police had contacted the heirs of the family and after the burial of the victim, the case would be registered.
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