By Imtiaz li in Dawn, October 23th, 2023KARACHI: A worker of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan and two others were gunned down in suspected targeted attacks in different parts of the city on Sunday, police said. They said that Niaz Husain, 45, was gunned down by armed motorcyclists near Aman Chowk in Khairabad within the remit of the Manghopir police station on Sunday evening. An area police officer, Saeed Wahab, said that the victim was a…
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Report in Dawn, August 19th, 2023KARACHI: A local leader of Pakistan Peoples Party was shot dead in a suspected targeted attack in Orangi Town late on Tuesday night, police and party officials said. Iqbal Market police said that Amjad Husain, 35, was standing at the local party office near his home when three assailants riding a motorbike fired indiscriminately and fled. He sustained 10 bullet wounds including three in the abdomen and two in the…
Report in Dawn, March 9th, 2023KARACHI: A Pakistan Muslim League-Functional (PML-F) worker was shot dead in Orangi Town late on Tuesday night, police said on Wednesday. They termed the killing an outcome of a scuffle over ‘Kabotar-bazi’ (pigeon keeping), but the political party alleged that it was a ‘targeted attack’ allegedly carried out by workers of a religio-political party. Pakistan Bazaar SHO Sohail Khaskheli said that 40-year-old Pervez Shaikh was gunned down in Gulshan-i-Zia near…
by Md. Jahir Raihan in Prothom Alo, Feb 21, 2023Rangpur-1 constituency’s member of parliament and opposition chief whip in parliament Mashiur Rahman (Ranga) had a close relation with Rangpur Rampura’s transport worker Abu Bakkar Siddique for four decades. But no love is lost among them. Abu Bakkar said he discussed with Mashiur Rahman Ranga when he was state minister for rural development and cooperatives back in 2015 about employing his (Abu Bakkar’s) nephew as upazila…