[DAWN] KARACHI: The three gun attacks on Sunday and at least two bushwhackes last month, all in the same parts of 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...
East district, targeting the people from Shia and Ahmadi communities, were carried out with the same 9mm pistol, confirmed a forensic test report on Monday.
Within the span of two hours on Sunday, DSP Traffic Faiz Ali Shigri was rubbed out in the assassination on his official car in Gulistan-e-Jauhar, DSP Gulberg Zafar Hussain came under attack near Samama Shopping Centre and a trader belonging to the Ahmadi community, Sajid Mahmud, was killed in Gulzar-e-Hijri.
The same 9mm pistol had been used in the three attacks and at least two shootings which had left Mansoor Zaidi, the trustee of an Imambargah
...since Pakistain is very religiously correct, Shia Moslems can't call their houses of worship 'mosques,' which are reserved for Sunnis. It's not clear if imambargahs are used for explosives storage like mosques are...
, and another man belonging to the Shia community, Jawad Raza, in Gulistan-e-Jauhar and Gulshan-e-Iqbal, respectively, dead on Oct 8, said Karachi police chief Additional IG Mushtaq Ahmed Mahar. He added that the forensic lab of police department after an examination of the spent bullet casings collected from the different scene of the crimes confirmed that the same group of holy warriors had been involved in the incidents.
However,
a clean conscience makes a soft pillow...
as the two holy warriors belonging to banned Lashkar-e-Jhangvi
... a 'more violent' offshoot of Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistain. LeJ's purpose in life is to murder anyone who's not of utmost religious purity, starting with Shiites but including Brelvis, Ahmadis, Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Rosicrucians, and just about anyone else you can think of. They are currently a wholly-owned subsidiary of al-Qaeda ...
, Ishaq alias Bobby and Asim alias Capri, who had recently confessed to their involvement in several sectarian attacks in other districts of the city were not behind the latest shootings, another myrmidon group was believed to be behind the assassination'>assassinations in Gulistan-e-Jauhar and Gulshan-e-Iqbal, said Sindh chief of the Counter-Terrorism Department Dr Sanaullah Abbasi.
"Primary motive for the killings appeared to be sectarian," he said.
Earlier, the CTD police registered an FIR of the killing of DSP Shigri against unidentified suspects on the complaint of the maimed policeman, Abdul Rasheed, who was driving the official car of the officer.
Just over an hour before DSP Shigri’s murder, the same suspects had killed the trader belonging to the Ahmadi community, Sheikh Sajid Mahmud, 55, near his home in Kaneez Fatima Society, Gulzar-e-Hijri. "Sheikh Mahmud, who dealt in spare parts for flour mills, was killed for his faith," said the spokesperson of the Jamaat Ahmadiyya, Saleemuddin, in a statement on Monday.
The murder of a third Ahmadi man in the same neighbourhood this year indicated "a planned action against the Ahmadis", he said, recalling that Daud Ahmad and Chaudhry Khaleeq were rubbed out in the same vicinity on May 25 and June 20, respectively.
He expressed the concern that violence and social boycott were preached against the Ahmadis while the authorities let this happen despite the fact that hate propaganda was apparently banned under National Action Plan.