[Dawn] A former union councillor associated with the Muttahida Qaumi Movement...English: United National Movement, generally known as MQM, is the 3rd largest political party and the largest secular political party in Pakistain with particular strength in Sindh. From 1992 to 1999, the MQM was the target of the Pak Army's Operation Cleanup leaving thousands of urdu speaking civilians dead...
, who was wanted in more than half a dozen murder cases, was bumped off in Orangi Town on Friday, police said.
Officials added that Waqar Ahmed, 52, had just come to his shop after offering Zuhr prayers in Banaras when two gunnies riding a cycle of violence fired at him and fled.
He sustained multiple gunshot wounds and was rushed to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital where doctors declared him dead.
He's dead, Jim!
"The dear departed was a former union councillor and nine murder cases were lodged against him at different cop shoppes between 1987 and 2000," said Orangi SP Chaudary Asad Ali. He said the police seized four spent bullet casings fired from 9mm pistol from the crime-scene.
'Bandit' maimed in encounter
A suspected robber was maimed in an encounter with the police on Mauripur Road on Friday.
Police said some gunnies were allegedly looting people on Mauripur Road when a police patrol reached there and challenged them. In an ensuing encounter, one suspect, identified as Gulsher Ismail, 25, was placed in durance vile
Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages!
in maimed condition while his accomplice fled.
Five mobile phones and one pistol were recovered from his possession.The maimed was shifted 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 said his condition was serious.