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Five dead in attacks on clinics in Karachi
 [Dawn] A homoeopath and four other people were killed when gunnies attacked two clinics in Landhi area of the city on Saturday night. Four people were maimed.In the first incident, at least four attackers sprayed a clinic in Shah Latif Town with bullets, killing four people and injuring two men and two women, police said. Investigators found the incident to be the result of personal enmity. However, some people are alive only because it's illegal to kill them... the Muttahida Qaumi Movement ...English: United National Movement, generally known as MQM, is the 3rd largest political party and the largest secular political party in Pakistain with particular strength in Sindh. From 1992 to 1999, the MQM was the target of the Pak Army's Operation Cleanup leaving thousands of urdu speaking civilians dead... claimed that the clinic was owned by a member of one of its committees. "The clinic is situated in Bhains Colony of Shah Latif Town," Malir SP Ahmed Jamal said. "Initial investigations suggest that four to six gunnies came on two cycle of violences and entered the clinic. They fired on people inside the clinic and escaped." He said the clinic was owned by Dr Ghulam Sarwar Dahri, who was a member of the MQM's Muzafati Organising Committee. The doctor escaped unhurt, but his son Ghulam Murtaza and nephew Salim Dahri bit the dust, the SP said. An official at the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre (JPMC) said two of the injured died during treatment, bringing the corpse count to four. "They have been identified as Khadim Hussain Lashari and Shahzad Ayub. The injured were Afshan, Kiran, Haq Nawaz and Abdul Hakeem. One of the injured is at death's door," he said. In the other incident, a homoeopath belonging to the Ahmadi community was rubbed out. Police said gunnies targeted 55-year-old Syed Tahir Ahmad when he was in his clinic, checking patients. "He ran the clinic in one of the rooms of his 120-yard house in Khurramabad," said an official of the Landhi cop shoppe. "Two men pretending to be patients came to him and one of them fired at him." A father of five, the homoeopath suffered two bullet wounds and died, the police official said. His body was taken to the JPMC for medico-legal formalities. Posted by: Fred 2013-09-02 |
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