Karachi
Three suspected target killers were arrested in separate raids, police and Rangers said on Friday.
The police’s counter-terrorism department operations wing said on a tip-off, police raided a hideout of gangsters near the Saddar Parking Plaza and arrested Mohammad Yaqoob alias Mama.
During interrogation, Yaqoob disclosed a location where police found a large quantity of weapons including a light machine gun with 350 bullets, three Kalashnikovs with 50 bullets, two 12-bore repeater rifles, a 44-bore rifle, and a 30-bore pistol.
He told the interrogators he and his associates had murdered a Sunni Tehreek activist, Babar, in 2012.
They had also targeted a Mohajir Qaumi Movement-Haqiqi sector in-charge in Mehmoodabad and torched a Sunni Tehrek office in Lines Area in 2010.
Yaqoob was responsible for the murder of a member of the Ahmed Magsi group in Jut Line and inspector Nasirul Hassan in Brigade in 2010.
He had also killed Mohajir Qaumi Movement-Haqiqi Abdul Shakoor in Lines Area.
Yaqoob had gunned down advocate Basheer near Lucky Star and a trader Rao Adeel in Lines Area for refusing to pay him extortion money.
He and his associates had murdered Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan activist Imran in Brigade and Haqiqi activist Adil Miraj in Lines Area in 2013.
Arrest in Manghopir
Police raided another hideout in Gutter Bageecha, Manghopir and after a shootout arrested Mohammad Adnan alias Billo.
He was found in possession of a 30-bore pistol and 10 snatched cell phones. The police said Adnan was involved in target killing, extortion and street crime cases.
Rangers arrest
Rangers rounded up a suspected target killer in a raid in Gulshan-e-Maymar in the wee hours of the day.
A Rangers spokesperson said Moeez Saleem was affiliated with a political party and involved in 57 target killing cases in Karachi. He had killed two paramilitary soldiers and was also involved in gun attacks on Rangers and police
vehicles.