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| Rangers detain 'hitmen of a political party' for three months |
| 2015-10-05 |
| [DAWN] Pakistain Rangers, Sindh, informed an antiterrorism court on Saturday about the 90-day preventive detention of two suspected hitmen, said to be associated with a political party, for questioning. The paramilitary soldiers along with their legal team produced the two suspects -- Akbar Hussain alias Kala and Konain Hyder Rizvi -- in the chamber of Judge Bashir Ahmed Khoso of the ATC-I amid tight security. The MQM, meanwhile, said that Akbar Hussain was a party worker who was picked up from his Federal B Area residence some 15 days ago and today "falsely implicated in the killing of Haq Parast politicians". A Rangers law officer, through an application, stated that the suspects were picked up in Gulshan-e-Maymar upon receiving credible information about their involvement in assassinations and other offences which came with the ambit of the Anti-Terrorism Act, 1997. Therefore, he informed the court that they were placed under three-month preventive detention under Section 11-EEEE of the ATA for an inquiry. In compliance with Section 11 EEEE (3) of the ATA, the detainees were produced along with their detention orders and jail warrants for the information of the court, he added. While the Rangers did not mention any specific charges against the two suspects before the ATC judge, a front man for the paramilitary force claimed in a statement that the duo were affiliated with a political party and one of them was involved in the killing of two 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... politicians in 2010 and 2013. The front man said that suspect Akbar Hussain was allegedly involved in 12 cases of assassinations, including the liquidation of two members of provincial assembly, Raza Haider and Sajid Qureshi. The suspect was also involved in four cracker attacks on the MQM camps during the 2013 general election in Azizabad, Nazimabad, Mukka Chowk and Yousuf Plaza, he said, adding that he carried out such acts "on direction of MQM (A) leadership for getting public sympathy". |
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