Target killer reveals getting paid Rs 2,000 for a life in Karachi
The target killer was apprehended from Purana Golimar around a month ago
KARACHI (Dunya News) – Arrested target killer named Javed Punjabi has revealed that he was paid Rs 2,000 for a killing by his commander, Dunya News reported Thursday.
The culprit made heinous revelations during interrogation. He used to target the people who had refused to pay extortion money. He was provided with names of his targets by gang war commander named Riyasat.
Punjabi’s group included Jameel Changa, Sultan Agha, Kamran Kamu, Fazal Dada among 16 persons.
The target killer was apprehended from Purana Golimar around a month ago. In one the incidents, Punjabi and two accomplices named Salman and Zahid alias Haddi abducted a local, Khuram Hazar and tortured him. The body was later thrown in Lyari’s lake.
According to investigation authorities, huge cache of weapons was recovered after raiding a site in Khawaja Ghareeb Colony on Punjabi’s information.
Earlier in January, Lyari gang war leader Uzair Baloch was handed by a court to Rangers on 90-day remand. In his video message, Baloch said that the government completely backed People’s Aman Committee and used it for political benefits.
Baloch was arrested as he was trying to enter Karachi from the city’s suburbs. He had fled the country as soon as the Karachi operation had begun. It was previously reported that Baloch had fled to Dubai and a team of Criminal Investigation Department (CID) officers was later sent there to arrest him. The team stayed in Dubai for a month but could not succeed due to legal complications.
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An officer of the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) was added in the team. The agency had completed all the legal requirements with the help of Interpol.
A targeted operation was launched in Karachi on September 2013 which aimed at curbing street crimes and target killings.
The operation is underway and Rangers, who are leading the strike, are granted extensions in their stay in Sindh’s tenure. Federation received a backlash from Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) and Sindh government, Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) as the parties alleged law enforcement agencies to have abducted political workers in operation’s name.
However, despite the flak, federation has recently extended Rangers stay by two months. Federal Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar maintained that the paramilitary force was given special policing powers in Karachi in accordance with the Constitution of Pakistan.
Karachi has had history of turmoil as an operation named ‘Clean up’ was launched there in 1992 by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. In current scenario, the targeted operation in Karachi was also launched on final word of Nawaz Sharif.
In 1992, the operation came as counter measure by the government against Jinnahpur plan. The alleged plan aimed at separation of Sindh’s metropolitan. The separation was to serve the Muhajirs residing there, the people who had moved to Pakistan post Indo-Pak conflict that sparked violence.
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