MQM-London activist among seven held by Rangers

The Sindh Rangers on Thursday arrested seven outlaws, including an activist of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement-London, according to a spokesman for the paramilitary force.

He said Rangers personnel conducted a raid in PIB Colony and rounded up MQM-L worker Shayan Nazeer alias Shan Masih, who was involved in a number of criminal activities.

In another raid, he said, the Rangers arrested a facilitator of target killers in the Sachal Goth area. The accused was identified as Mashtaq and he was involved in facilitation of a number of target killing incidents in the metropolis, he added.

Separately, the paramilitary force raided different parts of Sachal and Saddar areas and arrested five drugs dealers, the spokesman said, adding that they were identified as Abdul Ghafor, Rashid, Usman, Yaseen Khan and Muhammad Shaheen.

He said weapons were found on the arrested suspects and they were handed over to police for further investigations.

On Saturday, the Sindh Rangers had foiled a terror plot in Karachi as the paramilitary force arrested four men associated with the banned Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ).

A Rangers spokesman said the paramilitary force conducted an intelligence-based targeted raid in Orangi Town, from where they arrested four LeJ terrorists and shifted them to the Rangers headquarters.

The spokesman said the detainees were high-profile terrorists who were planning a suicide attack on a Yaum-e-Ali procession, adding that the paramilitary force seized a huge cache of weapons and explosives in the raid.

He said the raiding team confiscated a suicide jacket, 15 kilograms of explosives, 18 hand grenades, two Kalashnikovs with 429 bullets, a .444 rifle, seven 30-bore pistols, 15 metres of wire and a computer.

Cop dies of cardiac arrest

A policeman died of a cardiac arrest while performing duty in PIB Colony on Thursday.

Police Constable (PC) Babar Ramzan was posted in the PIB Colony police station, said a police official.

He said Babar was rushed to hospital from the police station after he complained of chest pain but he breathed his last on the way to hospital, he said, adding that the body had been handed over to heirs for burial.

A week ago, an ASI died of a cardiac arrest while performing his duty outside Dolmen Mall, Tariq Road.

Ferozeabad SHO Rao Rafique said ASI Jameel Majeed, 36, was deployed outside deployed on Ramazan Special Duty when he complained of chest pain.

Majeed’s colleagues took him to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre (JPMC) for treatment where he breathed his last, SHO Rafique said. 

He said ASI Jameel Majeed, who was resident of Surjani Town, was deployed at East Head Quarter.

Later on, police handed the body to heirs for burial. In May this year, a police officer undergoing physical training at the Saeedabad Police Training Centre (PTC) died of cardiac arrest after a training session. The deceased officer was identified as Head Constable Najam Ali, son of Rustam Ali, who was enrolled in a police training course that commenced on November 28, 2016.