KARACHI: Pir Pagara’s grandson booked for killing guard
By Our Staff Reporter
KARACHI, Nov 8: Police arrested two private guards allegedly for killing a private security guard in a clash over the possession of a plot in Gulistan-i-Jauhar late on Monday night.
An FIR (No.336/05) was registered at the police station concerned on the complaint of Shaukat Ali, Chief Security Officer of the Police Foundation, in which the grandson of Pir Pagara, Pir Rashid Ali son of Raja Sain, and his three associates have been shown as absconding.
Police said that Pir Rashid Ali, along with his accomplices, came to a plot in Gulistan-i-Jauhar and allegedly opened fire at the guards of the Police Foundation who were guarding the plot, measuring 26 acres, owned by the Dadabhoy Group of Companies. Consequently, a guard, identified as Aya Khan, suffered a bullet wound. He was picked up by Pir Rashid’s men and taken to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre. They told the medico legal staff at the hospital that the guard had fallen from the roof. However, they disappeared from the hospital and the guard died shortly afterwards.
Hospital sources said that Aya Khan had received a bullet in his head.
Police said Police Foundation guards had also returned fire injuring Mohammad Iqbal, manager of Pir Rashid. The piece of land has been a bone of contention between the two groups for the past few years.
A counter FIR was lodged by Iqbal claiming that he got injured in the firing by security guards of the Police Foundation.
A senior police official requesting anonymity told Dawn that during the last six years, at least 10 FIRs had been registered against Pir Rashid and one, Abu Bakar in Clifton alone. These FIRs pertained to murder, kidnapping, encroachment and trespassing, he added.
“In Sachal police station, which has a record number of cases registered regarding land disputes, four FIRs have been registered against Pir Yasir and Pir Rashid in connection with land occupation,” the police official said.
A senior police officer feared for suspension and subsequent transfer of the police officials who played an active role in the registration of the FIR against Pir Rashid and his associates.
