A man said to be a member of the Kuchhi Rabita Committee (KRC) was rubbed out in a Lyari ...one of the eighteen constituent towns of the city of Karachi. It is the smallest town by area in the city but also the most densely populated. Lyari has few schools, substandard hospitals, a poor water system, limited infrastructure, and broken roads. It is a stronghold of ruling Pakistan Peoples Party. Ubiquitous gang activity and a thriving narcotics industry make Lyari one of the most disturbed places in Karachi, which is really saying a lot....
locality on Friday evening, police said.
They said that the killing occurred in Moosa Lane where Irfan Soomro, 37, who was sitting outside his residence, was targeted by three men who reportedly came there on foot.
Baghdadi SHO Ghulam Nabi Afridi said: "They [assailants] might have used a cycle of violence to escape from the scene, but initial reports suggest that they were on foot when they carried out the killing".
The victim was rushed to the Civil Hospital where he was pronounced dead.
He's dead, Jim!
on arrival, the police said.
He suffered bullet wounds in the head and chest.
The area SHO said that the victim was said to be a member of the KRC.
Karim Kuchhi, a KRC front man, told Dawn that the victim was not only a member of the KRC but also an office-bearer of the Pakistain People's Party (city area).
He said that on Friday morning the PPP took out a small rally in support of setting up of reverse osmosis (RO) plants in Lyari and the victim was present in the programme.
Man found rubbed out in Korangi
The body of a man, stuffed in a gunny bag, was found in Korangi early on Friday morning, police said.
They said the victim had been shot in the head.
The body was found in Mehran Town, they added.
The victim was identified as Noor Rehman, 30, at the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre with the help of some documents
found on him.
A duty officer at the Korangi Industrial Area (KIA) cop shoppe said that the victim was a resident of Kunwari Colony,
Manghopir and originally hailed from Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa
... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central...
It appeared that the victim had been kidnapped and rubbed out somewhere else and the body was thrown at the scene, the
police said.
Police were immediately not sure about the motive of the murder. Till late in the night, no case pertaining to the killing was
registered at the KIA cop shoppe.
The victim was a nephew of a local leader of the Awami National Party, Anwerzeb Musakhel, according to a party press
release.
The funeral prayer was held in Kunwari Colony and he was buried in the Manghopir graveyard.