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India-Pakistan
Karachi Korpse Kount: 6
2012-06-21
[Dawn] Six people, including a truck driver and a teenager, were killed in different parts of the city on Tuesday, police said.

They said that the trussed-up body of a young man stuffed in a gunny bag was found in Federal B Area on Tuesday.

The body was found near the coconut ground in F. B Area's Block 15 within the remit of the Jauharabad cop shoppe.

The victim was identified as Shahid Memon, 35. He was a resident of F. B Area Block 3, Hussainabad Azizabad. He was the father of two, working as a salesman at a general store.

The victim's face was muffled in polythene bags, the police said, adding that he had been missing since Monday evening.

The body was shifted to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital for medico-legal formalities, where doctors said that the victim had been strangled to death and the body did not bear any torture marks.

The police said that the motive for the murder could not be ascertained immediately.

A case (FIR 151/2012) was registered against unknown persons on a complaint of the victim's father at the Jauharabad cop shoppe.

Truck driver rubbed out
A truck driver was rubbed out in a North Bloody Karachi
...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It may be the largest city in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous...
area on Tuesday, police said.

They said that the incident took place near Madiha stop in North Bloody Karachi within the remit of the Khawaja Ajmer Nagri cop shoppe.

They said that Abdul Sattar Khan was driving his truck (JU-1270) when gunnies on cycle of violences fired at him and rode away.
He died before he could be shifted to hospital, the police said. The body was shifted to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital for medico-legal formalities.

The police said that the victim was a resident of North Bloody Karachi and might have been killed due to some personal enmity.

Bullet-riddled body found
The body of an unidentified man, also stuffed in a gunny bag, was found along the Malir river within the remit of the Korangi Industrial Area cop shoppe on Tuesday, police said.

They said that the trussed-up body was shifted to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre for medico-legal formalities.

Area SHO Malik Ayub said that the victim had been shot in the head and the body bore torture marks.

He said that apparently the body was thrown at the scene and he was kidnapped before being murdered somewhere else.

The police said that the victim's appearance suggested that he originally hailed from Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa
... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central...
. Nothing was found in his possession which could help the police ascertain his identity.

Later, the police shifted the body to the Edhi morgue for want of identification.

Paperwork was started but nothing else was done against unknown persons on behalf of the state.

Man found murdered in Quaidabad
In another incident, the body of a teenager was found in the Quaidabad area on Tuesday.

Police said that the body was found in Star ground in Quaidabad. It bore torture marks on the head. He was killed with some sharp-edged weapon.

They said that he was clad in shalwar-kameez. The body was shifted to the JPMC and later moved to the Edhi morgue for identification, the police added.

Teenager bumped off
A teenage boy was rubbed out in Landhi's Future Colony within the remit of the Sharafi Goth cop shoppe on Tuesday, police said.

They said that Saleem Sultan, 19, a resident of Mansehra
...a city and an eponymous district in eastern Khyber-Pakthunwa, nestled snug up against Pak Kashmir, with Kohistan and Diamir to the north and Abbottabad to the south...
Colony Landhi, was targeted in Future Colony by unknown assailants. He was struck down in his prime.

The body was shifted to the JPMC for medico-legal formalities.

A duty officer at the Sharafi Goth cop shoppe said that the victim's uncle, Fazal, was killed along with three people a few weeks ago during a clash over theft of sandals in Quaidabad.

He said that the teenager's killing could be linked with that case.

Later police handed over his body to his heirs.

Till late in the night, no case was registered.

Meanwhile,
...back at the argument, Jane reached into her purse for her .38...
a man was rubbed out and another was maimed in Cattle Colony on Tuesday.

The Sukhan police said that the incident took place in Cattle Colony Road No.6 after Mohammad Adnan came to the house of Abdul Hameed.

After an altercation, Adnan shot Hameed, 32, and his cousin Abrar Ali, 28, the police said, adding that Hameed or his cousin also shot Adnan as he also suffered gunshot wounds.

The police shifted the maimed to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre where Abrar died.

The police said that Hameed had contracted a freewill marriage with Adnan's sister a few months back. However after a fight with her husband, she had returned to her parent's house. Adnan had gone to Hameed's house to resolve the issue.

Adnan was taken into custody and the police were questioning him.

ST man maimed
An activist of the Sunni Tehrik
...formed in Karachi in 1992 under by Muhammad Saleem Qadri. It quickly fell to trading fisticuffs and liquidations with the MQM and the Sipah-e-Sahaba, with at least a half dozen of its major leaders rubbed out. Sunni Tehreek arose to become the primary opposition to the Deobandi Binori Mosque, headed by Nizamuddin Shamzai, who was eventually bumped off by person or persons unknown. ST's current leadership has heavily criticized the Deobandi Jihadi leaders, accusing them of being sponsored by Indian Intelligence agencies as well as involvement in terrorist activities...
, identified as Anwar Siddiqui, was maimed in an armed attack in Khudadad Colony within the remit of the Brigade cop shoppe on Tuesday, police said.

They said he was admitted to the JPMC where his condition was said to be critical.
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