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Doctors, political activists among seven shot dead

Paposh Nagar SHO suspended over doctors’ killings;victims include ASWJ leader, MQM workers

By M. Waqar Bhatti
January 11, 2015
Karachi
Seven people, including two doctors, the Baldia Town president for the Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat (ASWJ) and two activists of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM), were gunned down on Saturday.
Fifty-one people have been killed in the city in the first 10 days of the new year, said a spokesman for the Karachi police. He said this year’s victims included eight policemen, two Rangers soldiers, three doctors, one lawyer and several members of religious and political parties. Most of the murders were committed in the West and South zones of the city.

Two doctors murdered
Two doctors were killed within a short span of time in Paposh Nagar: two suspects barged into 50-year-old child specialist Dr Akbar Ali’s clinic in Block 5C and shot him in the head; a few minutes later, two men on a motorcycle arrived at 60-year-old homoeopath Yawar Hussain’s clinic near Khilafat Chowk and shot him in the head.
The Gulberg SP said both the incidents had identical modus operandi, adding that police were investigating if the same group of target killers was involved in the murders.
SHO Sarfaraz Gondal was suspended after the two killings and directed to report to DIG West’s office.
Condemning the murders, the Pakistan Medical Association and the Pakistan Islamic Medical Association said 17 doctors had been killed in the city last year.
They said doctors reserved the right to protest, adding that emergency meetings of all the medical associations were being convened to discuss the law and order situation in the city and to devise a future course of action.

ASWJ leader shot dead
A Madina Colony police official said two men on a motorcycle arrived at 40-year-old Hakeem Hafiz Muhammad Siddique’s clinic in 24 Market, Sector 5J, Baldia Town.
One of the suspects entered the clinic and opened fire on Siddique. He suffered 10 bullets of a 9mm pistol and died on the spot.
The ASWJ said the victim was the party’s Baldia Town president, adding that MQM leader Haider Abbas Rizvi was spreading hatred against the ASWJ.
A party statement said that a few days ago Rizvi had held a press conference and made negative remarks against the ASWJ, following which the party’s leaders and activists had been targeted.

Three ‘executions’
The bodies of three unidentified men were found at a deserted location in Jumma Goth located along Mauripur Road. They were identified as Muhammad Rehan, Naeem Jafri and Jafar Abbas Jafri.
Mochko SHO Chaudhry Saleem said the victims were apparently subjected to torture and shot once in the back of the head. He said Rehan was an MQM activist and an employee of the Karachi Water and Sewerage Board. The other victims were his friends and supporters of the party.
SHO Saleem said the three men had been kidnapped from Mauripur on January 5 and their families had filed kidnapping complaints at the Mauripur police station.

Another MQM man slain
Thirty-five-year-old Abdul Rauf was at his shop near the Shadab mosque in Block 11 of Federal B Area when unidentified motorcyclists shot him multiple times. A Gulberg police official said the victim was an MQM activist.