KARACHI: A young man was shot dead by armed men when he resisted a robbery bid in Korangi on Monday, police said.

The Zaman Town police said that two men riding a motorcycle emerged at a shop in Korangi’s Gulshan-i-Sikanderabad area near Christian Town and one of them got off the two-wheeler and snatched cash from shopkeeper Saeed Ahmed, 30.

As the robber was leaving the shop after completing the job, the shopkeeper tried to overpower him. However, the robber fired a single shot that hit him in the chest, the police said, adding that despite being wounded the shopkeeper did not leave the robber.

They said that his accomplice got off the motorbike and fired at the shopkeeper; the bullet hit him in the head and he died on the spot.

The robbers rode away with looted cash and other valuables, the police said.

The body was shifted to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre for a post-mortem examination.

Man shot dead in Gulshan

A young man was gunned down in Gulshan-i-Iqbal on Monday.

Mobina Town SHO Meraj Anwar said that Tauqeer Haider, 28, was shot dead near a housing project called Daud Regency off Superhighway.

He said his friends took the body to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital, where they told doctors that he was killed while resisting a robbery attempt.

However, police did not believe their version as no spent bullet casing was found from the scene of crime.

The police detained a man, identified as Daniyal, and during questioning he disclosed that another person, R.S. Dasti, kidnapped Haider from his home and later shot him dead.

Based on the statement of Daniyal, the area SHO said that the deceased was interested in Dasti’s sister who got married a day before. The suspect warned Haider not to come to the ceremony, but instead he arrived there and created a scene, he added.

The SHO said that suspect Dasti was still at large.

He said he was associated with the Karachi Mazafati Organising Committee of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement.

$Another arms cache found in graveyard

Pakistan Rangers, Sindh on Monday claimed to have seized arms and ammunition dumped in a graveyard in Liaquatabad.

The paramilitary force took action after a tip-off that some miscreants had dumped their weapons in a graveyard in Haji Murid Goth, Liaquatabad.

The seized weapons included one 7mm rifle, one 8mm rifle, one revolver, two pistols and a large quantity of ammunition.

Published in Dawn, October 17th, 2017