DAWN/The News International, KARACHI
29 May 1999, Saturday, 13 Safar 1420
KARACHI: The Garden police arrested on Friday night one Muttahida activist Shafiq Kalia with head money of one million rupees. Police were informed about presence of the Muttahida activist, Shafiq Kalia allegedly involved in cases of killings and other heinous crimes in a flat in Soldier Bazar. Raiding the place police nabbed him.
Defence concludes arguments in Said caseKARACHI: The defence side almost shattered the whole prosecution by pointing out a number of lacunas, infirmities and contradiction in the evidence brought forth in Hakim Said case on Friday. Two defence counsels (DC) concluded their final arguments and the trial court put of the case till Saturday for arguments of DCs Mehmood Alam Rizvi and others.
While advancing his contentions before the Anti-Terorism Court headed by Dr Qamaruddin Bohra, advocate Sardar Muhammad Ishaque contended that complainant in the case Hakim Manzoor had not mentioned in the FIR that he had seen the culprits but before the court he improved upon his earlier statement saying that he had seen them after he was injured and was crawling towards Dawakahan and could recognize them. The counsel pleaded that it was impossible for an injured man to memorise features and physique of the accused in identification parade. Sardar Ishaq advocate said prosecution witnesses (PWs) Wahid Bux and Saroor Baig failed to establish their presence at the place of incident as on Saturday the Dawakhan was fixed for female.
The counsel said the complainant had also not mentioned the presence of the eyewitnesses (EWs) in the FIR. He quoted the SC judgement according to which such statement of EWs could never be relied upon for the purpose of conviction of the accused.
Sardar Ishaq, defending accused Amirullah, Zubair, Nadeem Mota, Faisal and Mukarab alias Nazir, further contended that of statement of Maula Bux, the witness of recovery of crime vehicle, was recorded one month after the incident and his statement and had contradiction. Maula Bux stated that the vehicle was spotted at 6:30am and police arrived on the spot at 7:00am while the IO had stated that police arrived at 10:00am and that memo of recovery was not prepared by the police. He further said that all the eyewitnesses had given false residential addresses thus losing their credibility. PW Sarwar Baig stated that after firing the culprits' vehicle moved toward Radio Pakistan which negated the other evidence.
Regarding approvers Haji Gull and Saeed Bhaiji, the counsel said only those co accused could be made approver, under the law, who were pardoned by all the legal heirs of the deceased while only Sadia Rashid had pardoned while Hakim's Said's brother had not granted such pardon to the approver. Even the statements of the approvers are exculpatory, (ie they did not assign any role to themselves), as such their statement could not be relied upon in a heinous crime like a triple murder. Approver Saeed Bhaiji had admitted in his statement that SP Tahir had given life threats to him and his family and he was tortured at CIA center and forced him to become approver.
The counsel pointed out that in the post mortem report the doctor had stated that the deceased received bullet injuries fired from a distance of three to five feet while the Ews deposed that the accused fired from a distance of 30 to 35 feet.
Earlier IA Hashmi for accused Abu Inam Pasha pointed out that there was neither any ocular evidence nor statement of PW nor judicial confession or identification parade, which connected his client with the offence in question. The only evidence against him was the 164 CrPC statement of accused Shakir Langra but the same was exculpatory and could not be made a base for conviction in absence of corroborative evidence. He also dilated on the definitions of abatement and conspiracy.
Six activists of Mutahida Qaumi Movement (MQM), Amirullah, Shakir Langra, Nadeem Mota, Asif Aizazul Hasan, Zubair and Abu Imran alias Pasha are facing trial in Hakim Said case while there are 19 others declared proclaimed offenders.
'Nadeem committed over 100 killings'KARACHI: Nadeem alias Marble Wala, who was arrested by the Field Security Wing (FS-Wing) of Rangers, was stated to be involved in more than hundred killings, including his own sister, on the suspicion of being police informer. This was disclosed by suspect Nadeem who was produced before the newsmen at a press conference, addressed by Lieutenant Colonel Javed of Rangers at his offices on Friday.
Nadeem Marble Wala told newsmen that he had gunned down a number of army, rangers and police personnel in the last six years. The Sindh government had announced Rs one million as his head money. Col Javed said that Nadeem was arrested last night from Raza Square in Gulshan-e-Iqbal's Block 11.
Nadeem said that he had joined Muttahida six years ago and on the orders of party leadership, including Shoaib Bukhari, Wakil Ahmed Jamali, Anis Advocate and Ajmal Pahari, he had gunned down a number of people, besides acts of arson, carnage, and kidnapping. "Provision of arms and protection was the responsibility of the party. Shoaib Bukhari used to visit my place for giving instructions about committing killings," he added.
He also disclosed that he had been in South Africa for almost one year and returned to the country in August 1998, due to some family matters. Nadeem disclosed that more than 300 Muttahida activists were residing in the South Africa.
He disclosed that he had killed his sister in 1996 on suspicion of being police informer, besides murdering Head Constable Haziq Masood in Mominabad, nephew of a local PML leader Nawab Ali Sabri in 1995, Senior Clerk of IGP office Muhammad Saeed, and Lance Naik Abdul Haq of Army.
The Ranger's officials claimed that he had also gunned down four activists of Mohajir Qaumi Movement in Orangi, besides kidnapping and murdering two brothers -Kashif and Asif of MQM. The suspect was being interrogated for obtaining further disclosures.
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