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| Bouquets & brickbats for police over arrest of four 'hit men' |
| 2013-03-03 |
| [Dawn] Police earned the ire and appreciation of the Majlis Wahdat-e-Moslemeen and the Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat ...which is the false nose and plastic mustache of the murderous bannedextremist group Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistain, whatcha might call the political wingof Lashkar-e-Jhangvi... , respectively, when they claimed on Friday to have tossed in the clink Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! four suspects associated with a political party and also involved in assassinations carried out on sectarian grounds. The police said that they arrested four men -- Syed Naeem Haider Najafi, Syed Hussain Ahmed Jafri, Rais Jafri and Syed Azhar Hussain Rizvi -- in the Gulbahar and Rizvia areas and seized pistols and a rifle from them. Speaking at a presser, DIG-West Javed Odho claimed that the held suspects were allegedly involved in 31 murders, including those of ASWJ workers. He said that the suspects had been associated with a political party, for which they had also killed several people, but now they were affiliated with a sectarian outfit and killing their rivals. However, some people are alive only because it's illegal to kill them... he did not name the political party to which they belonged. The DIG said that suspect Najafi confessed to his involvement in 11 murders, suspect Rizvi to 15 murders, suspect Jafri to four killings and suspect Rais Jafri to having killed one person. MWM demands DIG's dismissal After the announcement of the arrests, the MWM's Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... chapter held a presser at the Karachi Press Club and demanded immediate dismissal of DIG Odho for 'implicating innocent Shia men in the killings'. MWM leader Asghar Abbas Zaidi warned that his party would launch countrywide protests if the innocent Shia youths were not released. Accompanied by Maulana Mohammad Hussain Karimi, Maulana Ali Anwar Jafri and Mohammad Hussain Jafri, Mr Zaidi said that Rangers had taken 19 youths into their 'illegal' custody on the morning of Feb 25 from their houses without any warrant in Gulbahar's Jafria Colony. He said that 15 of them had been released, while the remaining four men were handed over to the DIG-West, who levelled baseless allegations against them in his presser. Referring to the presser of the police, Mr Zaidi said that the DIG-West claimed that the held persons had previously belonged to a political party and they recently quit it and joined a Shia party.Terming the DIG a biased officer, the MWM leader said that he did not name the political party but had no qualms about naming the Shia party in an attempt to bring the latter into disrepute. ASWJ praises arrests Appreciating the presser of the DIG-West, a front man for the ASWJ said that his party wanted a free and transparent trial of the held suspects. "Today's presser of the DIG west to show arrest of four suspected killers should be appreciated," he told Dawn. "We have credible information that law-enforcement agencies picked up some 20 suspects mainly in the Nazimabad, Gulbahar and Rizvia areas and they should not be released under any pressure." Referring to the Gulbahar and Rizvia areas, where he said his party had lost more than a dozen workers in recent weeks, the front man claimed that ASWJ leaders had informed authorities in their meetings about the presence of bully boyz in the two localities. He said that the police had time and again claimed the arrests of a number of members of banned parties, but this trend was never witnessed when it came to the arrest of the killers of ASWJ holy mans and activists. "The law-enforcement agencies should not set them free on personal guarantees or under any pressure and the held suspects must face transparent trial." |
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