KARACHI: Police on Saturday claimed to have arrested a suspected gangster for allegedly planning killings of informers of intelligence agencies.

DIG-South Syed Asad Raza said that the Baghdadi police had arrested Asif alia Chikna after an encounter. He was one of the “most wanted” gangsters of Lyari and involved in murders, extortion and targeted killings.

During interrogation, a mobile phone conversation had also been retrieved in which the held suspect and his accomplice, Shafi PMT, were heard saying that pictures and locations of informers of police and intelligence agencies had been given to gang leader Bahadur PMT and other gang commanders Faisal Pathan and Ahmed Ali Magsi.

“The suspected gangster in connivance with targeted killers from Balochistan was planning killings of informers in Lyari,” DIG Raza said, adding that the gang was also in contact with the outlawed Baloch Liberation Front (BLF).

Published in Dawn, April 7th, 2024