[Dawn] Violence broke out in the strife-hit areas of 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....
on Thursday when a shootout between two gangs left three passers-by dead and four others maimed, law-enforcement agencies said.
They added that the killings were the result of a fresh rivalry between the criminal gangs operating in the city's oldest neighbourhood.
The officials said the breakdown of law and order in Lyari could be a 'deliberate move' in reaction to the 'targeted operation' by the Rangers that led to the arrest of a number of suspected gangsters during the past one month.
The fresh wave of violence that triggered anxiety and fear among residents and caused suspension of commercial and other activities in some localities again prompted the authorities to launch a targeted operation during which several suspects were placed in durance vile
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and arms and ammunitions seized.
According to Chakiwara SHO Ishaq Lashari, seven persons were maimed when the criminals resorted to heavy firing on Tannery Road in Bihar Colony.
All the seven victims were rushed to the Civil Hospital 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...
where doctors declared three of them dead. The dear departed were identified as Abdul Ghani Lakhiar, 35, Mohammed Waseem, 26, and Mohammed Shahbaz, 25. All the other maimed persons, including 70-year-old Manzoor Ali, Zeeshan Liaquat, 18, Mohammed, 20, and Asif Fayyaz, 27, were admitted for treatment, the police said.
According to a medico-legal officer of the CHK, Dr Qarar Abbasi, the relatives took away the bodies of Waseem and Shahbaz without completing legal formalities. He said Abdul Ghani had sustained a single gunshot wound in his chest, fired from some distance.
Mr Ghani was stated to be a 'paramedical tutor' at the Civil Hospital Dadu. He was also associated with the Benazir Bhutto
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The killings of three passers-by could be the outcome of 'infighting' between two gangs led by Faisal Pathan and Noor Mohammed alias Baba Ladla, respectively, said Lyari SP Shahnawaz.
He said the firing was carried out at a time when the paramilitary force was conducting a targeted action in the Singhu Lane area of Lyari.
The senior officer believed that the criminals might have opened fire on the people in order to divert the attention of the law-enforcement agencies there. However,
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he said, investigation was under way to ascertain the exact motive for the attack.
The Lyari SP said they had also received reports that a suspected gangster was killed during a shootout between the alleged criminal groups. But his accomplices took away the body, he added.
Following the killings, the Rangers conducted a targeted action in Bihar Colony.
According to a Rangers spokesperson, the paramilitary force tossed in the clink
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eight suspects and seized hand grenades, SMGs and other arms from their possession.
The Pakistain Rangers, Sindh, conducted targeted raids in Singhu Lane and other areas such as Liaquatabad, Jut Lines, Burnes Road, Bilal Colony, Khudda Ki Basti, Orangi Town, Al-Falah Colony, Landhi, Angara Goth, Pehalwan Goth, Korangi Town and Rafah-e-Aam Society.
The paramilitary force arrested 29 'hardened criminals', including 'Lyari gang war elements' and criminals affiliated with political groups, involved in 'heinous crimes'.
According to a police spokesperson, the Sindh police chief while taking notice of the firing incident in Lyari directed the city police chief to adopt "strict measures to restore normality to the area and report to him".