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7 September 2005, Wednesday, 2 Shabaan
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Muttahida worker shot dead
PML, Muttahida finalise nominations for Nazims
Muttahida helps Katrina victims
Youth commits suicide; 3 killed in mishaps
Killings of villagers in fake-encounter, 50 cops booked for murder
Policeman killed, 30 hurt in Quetta attack, BLF claims responsibility
Troops raid militants’ hideout in N Waziristan
ASI held in gang-rape case, 3 cops absconding
4 Saudi security men, 6 militants killed in clash
Muttahida worker shot dead
KARACHI: A Muttahida Qaumi Movement worker was shot dead and two others injured in Garden police jurisdiction on Tuesday. Nasir, 30, was shot dead, while Sajid 28 and Faqeer Muhammad, 38, received bullet wounds when unidentified persons opened fire on them in Ramswami near BP Factory. Unknown people also opened fire outside the mortuary. According to police, both of them were activist of Muttahida and reside in Landhi.
PML, Muttahida finalise nominations for Nazims
KARACHI: The ruling Pakistan Muslim League (PML) and Muttahida Qaumi Movement’s coalition parties have finalised the names of their candidates for the Nazims of district Mirpurkhas and seven other Tehsils and Talukas. The coalition also authorised the Muttahida Qaumi Movement to nominate its candidates for the Nazims for district Hyderabad and Taluka Hyderabad City and Taluka Latifabad while the decision for the Larkana and Jamshoro districts Nazims could not be taken and nomination for Tando Muhammad Khan district was postponed. According to an official handout faxed to newspapers from the Chief Minister’s House, the decision for the Nazims candidates was taken at a meeting on Tuesday at the Chief Minister’s House with the Sindh Chief Minister, Dr Arbab Ghulam Rahim, who is also the President PML, Sindh, presiding. The meeting approved the nomination of Abdul Saeed Qureshi, brother of Abdul Ghaffar Qureshi, political secretary to the chief minister for district Mirpurkhas while the Muttahida Qaumi Movement was authorised to nominate its candidate for the Taluka Mirpurkhas Nazim. However, Pir Pagara, chief of the Functional Muslim League, a member of the ruling coalition of Sindh has already nominated Fiza Junejo, daughter of ex-Prime Minister (late) Muhammad Khan Junejo, for the candidate for district Mirpurkhas and another party leader for the candidate of Taluka Sindhri, a stronghold of Pir Pagara. According to an official handout, Noor Ahmed Khan Bhurgari nominated as candidate for Taluka Kot Ghulam Muhammad, Muhammad Hasan Leghari for Talukha Jhuddo, Sarfaraz Zulfiqar Junejo for Talukha Sindhri and Mumtaz Hasan Marri for Talukha Hasan Marri. The name for Talukha Digri will be decides later. Noor Muhammad Shoro was nominated s candidate for the Nazim, Taluka Qasimabad, and Muhammad Khan Bhayo for Taluka Tando Jam. Candidature of the Nazims of district Larkana and Jamshoro could not be decided upon at the meeting. Sindh Minister Shabbir Qaimkhani, Rais Khair Muhammad Bhurgari, Abdul Ghaffar Qureshi, Syed Irfan Ali Shah, Syed Mumtaz Ali Shah, Muhammad Hasan Leghari, Sarfaraz Junejo, Mumtaz Leghari and others attended the meeting.
Muttahida helps Katrina victims
KARACHI, Sept 6: The Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) has launched relief activities for help of victims of Katrina, through all its units in the US, said a statement issued here on Tuesday. It said a meeting, chaired by the central organizer of MQM, Ajaz Siddiqi, and attended by all MQM units in the US, discussed the arrangements for relief activities for Katrina victims and expressed grief over the destruction caused in US by Katrina. It was decided in the meeting that a relief fund would be established to collect special relief funds and to arrange transportation of victims to safe places. It said that the MQM had also set up a base camp in Astrodome near Houston.—APP
Youth commits suicide; 3 killed in mishaps
KARACHI: A youth committed suicide following insistence by his parents that he marry his cousin. According to details, Phnuol Lal, 20 a labour worker reportedly hanged himself from a ceiling fan in a room of his factory in SITE police jurisdiction. When employees reached the place in the morning they saw Phnuol’s body hanging from the fan. Police informed the News that the parents of the deceased were forcing him to marry his cousin. MURDERED: Moeen Shah was shot at by two men riding a motorcycle in Moeenabad No 2. Hearing the shots, area people took Moeen to JPMC where he died. The police suspect the attack was due to old enmity. MISHAPS: Shahzad was run over by a truck near the Mai Kolachi Bridge and an unidentified 45-year-old man died under the wheels of a speeding vehicle near Guru Mander. Similarly, Sardar Ali was killed by a speeding vehicle at the Super Highway. Khalid Naeem and Masood were injured, when a car rammed into their motorcycle near NIPA Chowrangi.
Killings of villagers in fake-encounter, 50 cops booked for murder
KHAIRPUR: An FIR of murder has been lodged against 50 policemen, including DPO, DSP, five SHOs and three sub-inspectors, on a court order. Reports said the Beberloi police station, Khairpur, lodged FIR No 120/2005 under sections 337 ATA, 13 DAO, 315, 147, 148 149, 302/201-220/344 against DPO Ghulam Shabbir Shaikh, TPO Akhter Hussain Chandio, inspector Khan Mahar, SHOs Ghulam Hussain Dhabri, Haji Masood Rasool Malah, Abdul Hameed Panhwar, Irshad Ali Bhutto, Hidayatullah and 38 other policemen. The police lodged the FIR on the orders of the court of the second additional sessions judge Khairpur on a complaint of Ali Gul s/o Bahar Khan Jatoi resident of Alipur. Police declared the accused absconders. The complainant reported to the court that on May 1, 2005, he, along with villagers were attending the funeral rites of deceased Shah Dost Jatoi, when these police officials attacked them and killed one Karim Dino, s/o Sukhio Khan Jatoi. Ali Gul maintained that deceased Shah Dost Jatoi was killed in a tribal clash. He said the police later arrested him illegally and declared that an encounter with dacoits took place in which two dacoits, Shah Dost Jatoi and Karim Dino, were killed and the complainant was arrested. He said he obtained bail and filed the petition.
Policeman killed, 30 hurt in Quetta attack, BLF claims responsibility
QUETTA: A policeman was killed and over 30 others, including nine civilians were injured, some of them critically, when unknown armed men hurled a hand grenade and opened indiscriminate fire at a police team at Sariab Road here on Tuesday. Police said some armed men had blocked the National Highway at Sariab Road to protest against the arrest of a tribal elder Abdul Wadood Raisani when a police team led by Superintendent Wazir Khan Nasar reached the spot to get the road opened for traffic. Police claimed that as they started talks with the protesters to persuade them to end the blockade, some unknown armed men hurled a hand grenade and opened indiscriminate fire on the police team with automatic weapons. The grenade exploded with a bang killing a policeman, Muhammad Saeed, and injured 30 other persons. The injured included 21 policemen and nine passers-by. They were shifted to the Civil Hospital for treatment. The attackers fled the scene following the incident. Among the injured were SP Wazir Khan Nasar and DSPs Hassan Musakhel and Akbar Raisani. Soon after the incident, senior officials of the police and law-enforcement agencies reached the spot and started investigation. Talking to newsmen, Balochistan Home Minister Mir Shoaib Nausherwani said the government would arrest those involved in the attack. He said the government would utilise all available resources to maintain law and order in the province and nobody would be allowed to take the law in his own hands. Meanwhile, a spokesman of Baloch Liberation Front (BLF), Mirak Baloch, claimed responsibility for the attack on the police party and vowed to continue their struggle for securing the rights of Baloch nation. Agencies add: Besides the superintendent of police, the injured included three deputy superintendents and two station house officers. Those identified among the injured policemen were Muhammad Azam, Nazar Hussain, Nasir, Muhammad Arif, Mohammad Ramzan, Ghulam Safdar, Aqeel Ahmed and Jameel Iqbal. Five tribesmen were also injured when the police returned fire and hurled tear gas shells, police official Pervez Zahoor said. The injured tribesmen were moved to a Quetta hospital under police custody, Zahoor said. There was no word on their condition. The tribal chief, identified as Abdul Wadood Raisani, was arrested Monday on fears that his meddling in local tribal politics in his hometown of Mastung could disturb peace, according to Zahoor.
Troops raid militants’ hideout in N Waziristan
PESHAWAR: Authorities in North Waziristan have suspended five government-employed Khassadars for negligence during Monday’s incident in Miranshah town in which three government officials were killed. The suspensions were ordered on a day when the Pakistan Army troops launched an operation in the remote Shawal area near the border with Afghanistan following a tip-off about presence of foreign militants in Kundi village. Military sources told The News that the troops searched the suspected place and found arms and ammunition, including rockets, sleeping bags, jackets, food and medicines. The sources said the foreign militants had apparently used it a hideout and escaped before they could be apprehended. The troops faced no resistance while carrying out the search, which ended on Tuesday afternoon. Official sources said the five members of the armed tribal force, or Khassadars as they are commonly called, failed to react when gunmen attacked and shot dead Tehsildar Iftikhar Khattak, political Moharrir Ali Imroze and a Khassadar, Abdul Hameed. The killers managed to escape from the scene of the occurrence. The political agent, North Waziristan, Tariq Hayat, said those doing good work would be rewarded while government officials failing to discharge their duty would be punished. The incident happened in broad daylight in a busy bazaar of Miranshah, headquarters of the North Waziristan tribal agency. The town’s markets closed down after the killings and later the authorities imposed a nigh-time curfew in a bid to plug the escape routes of the alleged killers. Residents said the situation was calm Tuesday and the bazaars in Miranshah were open. The tension that filled the town Monday had subsided though the people were worried about the turn events could take place in troubled North Waziristan. Meanwhile, the authorities were putting pressure on the Borakhel Wazir sub-tribe to surrender two men accused of involvement in the killing of the three government officials. The tribal elders have already handed over two other accused, namely Gul Badshah and his nephew Sher Badshah, to the administration. The remaining two accused were reportedly accomplices of Gul Badshah and Sher Badshah. The Borakhel Wazirs could face punitive measures under the collective responsibility clause of the Frontier Crimes Regulations (FCR) if they fail to produce the two wanted men. The body of Iftikhar Khattak, the deceased Tehsildar of Miranshah, was taken to his native Karak district for burial Monday evening. He was reportedly a marked man after having tracked down and nabbed some of the wanted militants.
ASI held in gang-rape case, 3 cops absconding
ISLAMABAD, Sept 6: A police officer has been arrested in Rawalpindi and hunt for two others in a gang-rape case in the second case in a week, police sources told Dawn late on Tuesday. A woman, resident of Dhok Choudhrian, lodged a complaint with the Airport police that an assistant sub-inspector, Ilyas Kalyar, two constables, Mohammad Sadiq and Bilal, gang-raped her in her house on Sunday. On the directives of assistant superintendent of police, Civil Lines, an FIR has been registered against the accused. The medical test on the victim was done in the Rawalpindi General Hospital and the report is due to be released soon. District Police Officer Saud Aziz told the BBC that three constables had absconded. He said that a sub-inspector had been arrested in connection with the case. The woman alleged that the police officials had arrested her husband and demanded a bribe of Rs100,000, a BBC website reported. The victim said she paid the police Rs30,000 after which her husband was released but the officials continued demanding the remaining amount. She accused the four officers of then barging into her house on Sunday and raping her after locking her husband and uncle in another room in the house. The case comes after Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz and Supreme Court Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry ordered separate inquiries into the alleged rape of a woman in Faisalabad, BBC reports.
4 Saudi security men, 6 militants killed in clash
RIYADH: Saudi security forces stormed a militant hideout in Dammam on Tuesday, ending three days of fierce fighting in which security sources said at least six suspects and four policemen were killed. An Interior Ministry statement said security forces had "cleared and secured" the house in the Gulf coast city, which is close to some of Saudi Arabia's main oil installations, and found charred human remains inside. The Interior Ministry did not say how many suspects were killed in Dammam, but a security source estimated at least six had died. The ministry said four policemen were killed and another 10 were wounded in the siege, which began on Sunday. Saudi television showed a large weapons haul, including automatic rifles and grenades, seized after the shootout. Earlier, the television had shown security forces firing guns and rocket-propelled grenades at the besieged house in Dammam east of Riyadh. The elegant, pillared front of the building was gutted and burnt out. The US consulate in the nearby city of Dhahran closed on Monday because of security concerns linked to the shootout. The security source said one of the dead suspects was Zaid al-Samari, a 31-year-old Saudi national named in June on a list of 36 wanted militants.
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