KARACHI (Web Desk) – Alleged target killer Kashif alias David has confessed to killing thirty people including Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PMLN) leader Zuhair Akram Nadeem and Bihari Qaumi Movement (BQM) chief Aftab Malik, a Rangers spokesperson stated on Tuesday.
MNA Zuhair Akram Nadim was shot dead on July 4, 1998 in Sector E of Orangi Town while Aftab Malik, ex-UC Nazim and founder of Bihari Qaumi Movement (BQM), was gunned down in Organi Town in November 2010.
According to a press release issued by Sindh Rangers, the accused has admitted that he joined notorious target killer Ajmal Pahari’s team in 1995 and started running a network of target killers backed by MQM Coordination Committee and Karachi Tanzeemi Committee since 2005.
A press release issued by Sindh Rangers
Earlier, Kashif was presented before anti-terrorism court (ATC) judge where Rangers’ Law Officer Hussain Bakhsh Baloch told court that the accused was arrested from Azizabad area of Karachi late on Monday.
While seeking his 90 day remand, Bakhsh told court that Kashif alias David is involved in more than hundred cases of target killing, extortion and terrorism.
The court handed over the accused in Rangers custody on 90 days remand and also directed the authorities to form a JIT within 15 days to probe the case.
Earlier on Tuesday morning, the paramilitary forces recovered a large cache of arms and ammunition, including short machine guns (SMGs), rocket propelled grenades (RPGs), rocket launcher, several bullet rounds and Rangers fake uniforms, from a house near More Park in Azizabad on the information provided by the accused.
Karachi, a city of 20 million, has long been a hotbed of crime and clashes, much of it linked to ethnic, sectarian and political divisions. Situation has gradually improved in the southern port city after Rangers as well as the police launched an anti-militant and crime operation in 2013.
In July 2015, the troops seized a large cache of assault rifles and detained suspects — including six “known criminals” — from the Muttahida Quami Movement’s offices in Azizabad area.
The MQM controls most of Karachi but is often accused by opponents of using violence to bolster its power. Its leader, Altaf Hussain has lived in self-imposed exile in Britain since 1992. The party has complained in recent months that their operatives have been targeted in military and police operations designed to quell violence in the city.
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