KARACHI: Three suspected militants were found shot dead in Memon Goth on Tuesday morning, according to police.

The officials said the bodies were dumped by the road that linked Gulshan-i-Hadeed with the Superhighway in the Dhair Sharif area near Quaid-i-Azam Public School.

Memon Goth SHO Jan Mohammed Ahmdani said the police received information around 7am about the bodies and rushed to the spot. “Sporting long beards, the men looked like Pakhtuns or Afghans,” he said.

“The killing appeared to be very recent as fresh blood stains were found there,” said sub-inspector Wazir Ali Channa. The police investigator added that circumstantial evidence indicated that the three men had been kidnapped and gunned down somewhere else before their bodies were dumped by the road. “No spent bullet casing was found on the spot,” he said.

SI Channa said each victim sustained two bullet wounds in their head and chest. “One of them aged between 60 and 65 years, another was in his 40s while the youngest among them was in his mid-20s,” he said.

The bodies were later shifted to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre for a post-mortem examination, the police said. The corpses were shifted to the Edhi morgue for want of identification following the autopsy, they added.

The Memon Goth police registered an FIR (25/2015) on a complaint of SI Wazir Ali Channa under Sections 201 (hiding the body with intention of disappearing evidence of the offence) and 34 (common intention) of the Pakistan Penal Code.

Memon Goth is considered one of the city areas where the bodies of ‘missing’ religious and political persons, particularly Baloch and alleged Lyari gangsters, have been found.

Last year eight suspected militants had been found shot dead in the Memon Goth area. Two of them were later identified as Sharbat Khan, 30, and Kifayatullah, 33, who had been ‘missing’ for four to five months before their murder, according to the police. The deceased originally hailed from Waziristan and had been taken away from new Sabzi Mandi, the police said.

Ex-councillor killed

A former councillor was shot dead allegedly in a family dispute along with her driver in Memon Goth, police said.

They added that Allah Bachai Ishaq, 45, was travelling in a chauffeur-driven car when armed men opened fire on the car near Saleh Mohammed Goth.

She and her driver, Pir Mohammed, 50, sustained critical wounds and were transported to the JPMC where doctors declared them dead on arrival, the police said.

The former lady councillor belonged to the Pakistan Peoples Party, said SHO Jan Mohammed Ahmdani.

He added that she was gunned down allegedly by her son-in-law Javed after they had a heated argument over the phone.

The police said her daughter had developed some differences with her husband, Javed, after which she started living with her parents. Some village elders later intervened in the matter and made efforts for a patch-up. Resultantly, the girl shifted to her husband’s home but the compromise did not last long. It was on this issue that Javed and his mother-in-law exchanged arguments over the phone on Tuesday and the ex-councillor was going to his residence when her vehicle was attacked, the police added.

A murder case was later registered against Javed on a complaint of the victim’s son, Mohammed Ali, the SHO said.

Published in Dawn, March 4th, 2015

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