DSP among three cops killed in Gulshan-e-Hadeed

Karachi
A deputy superintendent of police and two constables serving as his security guard and driver were gunned down in Gulshan-e-Hadeed on Friday morning.
The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan has claimed responsibility for the attack.
DSP Abdul Fateh Sanghri, 55, who was a sub-divisional police officer in Bin Qasim and lived in Steel Town, was heading towards the Gulshan-e-Hadeed market in his car when around five or six men riding motorcycles fired gunshots at his vehicle.
Steel Town SHO Mohammad Haroon Korai said the DSP, his security guard, constable Mohammed Farooq, and driver, constable Nazeer, were rushed to the Jinnah hospital where they were pronounced dead.
IGP Ghulam Hyder Jamali and DIG East Munir Ahmed Sheikh reached to the scene and ordered a thorough inquiry into the incident.
The IGP told reporters that the DSP’s murder was probably in response to the law enforcement agencies’ ongoing crackdown against criminals.
Replying to a query, Jamali said SSP Rao Anwaar had played an important role in the operation against terrorists and other criminals.
The DSP’s autopsy report revealed that he had suffered nine bullet wounds to his upper torso.
Constables Farooq and Nazeer had each suffered eight bullet wounds.
DIG Munir Sheikh told The News that empty bullet shells of 9mm pistols were found at the scene.
He added that the attackers had also taken away the official sub-machine gun of the DSP’s security guard.
“We have recorded the statements of witnesses and trying to develop the assailants’ sketches with their help,” he said.
“We are also going through the CCTV footage captured by the cameras installed near the crime scene.”
The DIG said the police had managed to find some solid leads and were working on them.
Counter-terrorism department chief Raja Umer Khattab told The News that the assailants’ modus operandi confirmed the involvement of a banned outfit in the attack.
“The terrorists knew exactly where the DSP was headed and that means that they had been monitoring his movements for some time,” he said.
The funeral prayers of constables Farooq and Nazeer were offered at the police’s Saudabad headquarters. The DSP’s heirs took away his body from the Edhi morgue in Sohrab Goth to his hometown in Pir Jo Goth, Dadu.
DSP Abdul Fateh Sanghri had joined the Sindh police as an ASI in 1983, and was promoted to the rank of DSP on March 21.
He was going to be promoted as an SP during an upcoming departmental promotion committee meeting. He was the younger brother of retired IGP Bachal Sanghri and SP Sukkur Abdul Ahad Sanghri.
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has condemned the murder of the DSP and the two constables and offered his condolences to their families.
Ordering an inquiry into the attack, he said restoring peace in Karachi was his government’s topmost priority.

Search operation
Later in the evening, the law enforcement agencies conducted a search operation in Bin Qasim. According to a statement, the search operation was conducted under the supervision of two SSPs, four DSPs, 12 SHOs, 80 commandos of the special security unit, three platoons from the police headquarters, paramilitary soldiers and personnel from the Malir Constabulary.