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Violence erupts in Orangi after killing over Eid donations
[Dawn]  A young factory worker was killed, three other persons were maimed in firing and two buses and a shop torched on Thursday in Orangi Town violence that erupted after a man was killed in a clash over collection of Zakat and Fitra in Bangla Bazaar, police said.The violence was sparked on Wednesday evening when three people, including an activist of the Pakistain People's Party, were attacked in the market in a dispute over collection of money by a group distributing Zakat and Fitra slips in the market, said a police brass hat of the area. "The dispute was over how another group was distributing slips of 'Fitra' to collect money from the market," the officer added. Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It may be the largest city in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... PPP leaders said that the party worker, Javed Behari, was rubbed out for refusing to take the slip for payment of Fitra. Immediately following the incident, the area reverberated with intense firing forcing closure of all markets within the remit of the Pakistain Bazaar cop shoppe. In the early hours of Thursday, Mr Behari died during treatment at a private hospital. In the morning, almost all the markets and shops remained shut and as the news of the death spread, violence broke out in the area. Sector 13 and 15 of Orangi Town were the worst-hit areas, with reports of complete market closure and heavy firing. Three passengers and a pedestrian were maimed in firing on a bus, the police said, adding that one of them, Adil aka Bablu, was shifted to Qatar Hospital where he died. The other victims -- Farzana Naseem, 35, Rani Bibi, 20, and Mohammad Naeem -- were rushed to Abbasi Shaheed Hospital where they were admitted for treatment. Adil was a resident of Orangi Town Sector 13-G and heading to a garment factory, where he used to work, when he sustained fatal gunshot wounds, the police said, adding that his family took away the body from the hospital without completing medico-legal formalities. Following the gun attack on the passenger bus, a tailor's shop, a bus of Z-4 route and a 7-star coach were set on fire near Islam Coach. Around a dozen of pushcarts were torched in Sector 15. Bloody Karachi Division PPP General Secretary Syed Najmi Alam strongly condemned the killing of the party worker, Mr Behari. He said 'terrorists' were distributing slips for Zakat and Fitra in Bangla Bazaar and they opened fire on him when he declined to accept the slip. Mr Alam said that every citizen of Bloody Karachi knew who distributed and collected Zakat and Fitra here and those refusing to pay were murdered. He called upon the law-enforcement agencies to rid the people of the menace of extortion in the name of Zakat and Fitra. He also demanded immediate arrest of the 'identified' suspected killers. Following the funeral at a local mosque, Mr Behari was laid to rest in the Orangi Town Sector 15-D graveyard. Posted by: Fred 2012-08-11 |
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