An uneasy calm returned to strife-hit areas of Bloody Karachi on Saturday, though random incidents of armed and arson attacks left two people dead and sowed fears in different neighborhoods.Vehicles were seen plying on road in Khokrapar area of Malir, but major markets remained closed because of funeral of two Muttahida Qaumi Movement
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activists who were killed in Friday' attacks. Two young men were rubbed out and another injured in Buffer Zone after midnight. Police said gunnies on cycle of violences intercepted three friends Owais, Raheel and Salahuddin near a shopping centre and fired multiple shots.
"The firing left Owais and Raheel dead while Salahuddin was badly injured," a police official said.
| Send them to Dr. Quincy for a diagnosis! |
Officials said Rangers and police had been rushed to Khokrapar No 1 and 2, Ammar-i-Tasir Housing Society, Jaffar Tayyar Housing Society and Jinnah Square.
Fear and tension gripped old city areas, where gunnies targeted a lawyer who was going home in his car. "Advocate Mukhtar Hussain Bukhari was attacked near Bheempura by the armed riders," said an official at the Eidgah cop shoppe.
He said the lawyer had sustained three bullets and died while being treated at the Civil Hospital. The victim, in his mid-40s, was a resident of Korangi and father of four. The legal fraternity and religious organizations condemned the incident and termed it a failure of the security administration. Bloody Karachi Bar Association president Muhammad Aqil said lawyers would hold a demonstration on Monday in protest against the killing.
| Protest the killing to whom, Allah himself? President Ten Percent? This is about lots of individuals choosing violence, and will continue until they decide not to be violent, to allow law and order to be restored. |
A minibus was set on fire on the main Abul Hassan Isphahani Road, near Abbass Town, on Saturday night. Intense gunfire was reported from the area as well as Block-17 of Federal B. area, where traders pulled down shutters and vehicles disappeared from roads.