Another suspect nabbed in connection with attack on Rashid Godil in Karachi
The raid was conducted on the directives of ATC to apprehend key suspect Shahid Bikak.
KARACHI (Dunya News) – Personnel of law enforcement agencies on Saturday have apprehended a suspect in a connection with an attack on Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) leader Rahid Godil during raid in Gulbahar area of Karachi.
According to initial details, the raid was conducted on the directives of an anti-terrorism court (ATC) to apprehend gangwar worker Shahid Bikak. Acting on the orders, security personnel nabbed a close accomplice of the suspect after launching a search operation at Bikak relatives’ house.
Shahid Bikak was wanted in heinous crimes and attack on former president Asif Ali Zardari’s protocol officer Bilal Sheikh.
Earlier In Clifton, Counter Terrorism Department arrested a suspect and claimed that the detainee, named Waseem, is being investigated regarding attack on Rashid Godil. Three suspects were arrested by law-enforcing agencies in Gulshan-e-Iqbal. The arrested suspects belong to a political party.
Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) leader Abdul Rashid Godil sustained injuries and his driver Abdul Mateen was killed when unknown suspects opened fire on his car in Karachi on August 18.
Godil was in his parked car at a traffic light in the Bahadurabad neighbourhood in the eastern part of the city when four attackers riding on two motorbikes began firing on his vehicle.
A spokesman at the Liaquat National Hospital, where Godil was taken, said the politician was struck by five bullets to his head, jaw and chest and a team of doctors was trying to stabilise him.
The shooting comes a week after members of the MQM, which dominates politics in Karachi, offered their resignations from their seats in parliament over what they described as a campaign of victimisation against them.
