KARACHI: Cop killed as political workers exchange fire
By Our Staff Reporter
KARACHI, Sept 29: A policeman was killed and several others were injured, most of them political workers, in an exchange of fire between workers of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement and the Mohajir Qaumi Movement in Orangi on Sunday.
Tensions between the two rival parties had been brewing for the past few days in the area.
Police said Muttahida workers wanted to open an election office in Al-Fatah Colony.
On Sunday afternoon Muttahida workers gathered in sector 11-E and they fixed their election symbol, kite, at Mohajir chowk in Orangi Town No 10.
Police said following the installation of the election symbol, MQM workers opened fire. During the firing a bullet hit an unidentified pedestrian, in his mid-50s, who was walking across the road. He was later identified as an office superintendent of the Special Branch of the Sindh Police, Ghulam Husain.
Two Muttahida workers were injured, TPO Orangi Town Fayyaz Qureshi confirmed. They were identified as Aftab Ali Khan, aged 22, and Shafqat, aged 22. They had been admitted to Abbasi Shaheed Hospital, police said.
Sources at the hospital said Mohammed Salman, Mohammed Aqil, Mohammed Ali and Qasim had been brought to the hospital from Orangi Town.
Police said earlier people travelling in a car had opened fire in the area.
Following the firing tensions increased in the area. Police patrolling has been intensified.
A spokesman for the Muttahida said their corner meeting was in progress in Al-Fatah Colony when workers of their rival party opened fire on it.
SUICIDE: A young housewife committed suicide in her in-laws’ house in Gulistan-i-Jauhar early Sunday morning.
Sameena, aged 25, wife of Faheem, hanged herself in her flat at Karachi Apartment in Gulistan-i-Jauhar.
Police said Sameena and Fahim’s was a love marriage. They got married more than a year back. However, Sameena’s in-laws used to taunt her for bringing little dowry. She could no longer put up with the taunting. On Sunday she locked herself up in a room and hanged herself with a bedsheet from a ceiling fan.
Her body was sent to Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre for post-mortem.
Later, the body was handed to relations for funeral.
ACCIDENTS: Reckless driving claimed two lives in the city on Sunday.
A lady doctor died when the car she was travelling in collided with a recklessly-driven truck on Shahrah-i-Pakistan near Aisha Manzil.
Police said Dr Qamrunnisa, aged, 55, was travelling in a car (AAT-949) with another lady doctor, Dr Jehan Ara, and two children when it collided with a speeding truck (JU-0270). Dr Jehan Ara was at the steering wheel. All three were injured. The Suzuki Margalla car was completely smashed.
The injured were rushed to Abbasi Shaheed Hospital where doctors declared Dr Qamrunnisa dead on arrival. The other lady doctor and the two children were later shifted to private hospitals.
The truck driver escaped.
An elderly woman, her daughter-in-law and granddaughter were knocked down by an unidentified speeding vehicle near their house in North Karachi in the morning.
Noor Jehan, aged 70, her daughter-in-law Ambreen and granddaughter Samreen, aged eight, were knocked down by an unidentified Suzuki pickup near their house in sector 5-L of North Karachi.
