Three responsible for 90 killings

By Arman Sabir

Police investigators in Karachi are of the view that only three pistols of 9mm caliber were used in killing of 90 people across the city.

Those killed by the three weapons included the ex-MPA of the MQM Syed Manzar Imam, a security official outside the Saudi consulate, a father and his five-year-old daughter of Shia sect besides people from different ethnicity, political affiliation and sects.

Many of them were killed with an aim to create unrest and mayhem in the city.

Consultant of the Sindh Home Department Sharfuddin Memon said that in some incidents the weapons used were not only the same but the modus operendi of the crime was also identical.

According to the police statistics, 2,300 people were killed last year in 2012 while more than 1,800 people were made target in 2011.

The newly upgraded forensic department of the police has investigated 1,100 cases of murders so far.

Senior officials said that the forensic examination showed that three pistols of 9mm caliber were used in ninety killings and it had indicated that there might be three shooters.

Police officials say that the shooters preferred to keep those guns with them which they used to do practice. This has strengthened the idea that there might be three persons involved in these 90 killings, they added.

Officials said that it was not a difficult task to ascertain that three weapons were used in the killing of ninety people. They said that the empties found at the scenes of these killings were examined. ‘The hammer’s strike of a gun on an empty of a bullet leaves unique impression which is like finger print’, an official said.

The official said that the empties found at the murders of ninety locations indicated that there were only three guns used in those incidents.

Sharfuddin Memon corroborated the police version saying that the modus operendi of the criminals were also similar to these incidents. He said that further investigations were under way in view of the forensic findings.

A police officer cited an example of the killing of Maulana Abdul Majeed Deenpuri and his two associates and said that the killers appeared to have been well-trained, agile and fearless despite the fact that they knew about the deployment of police and rangers pickets some 200 yards away from the incident.

The original story was published in BBCUrdu.com and this is the translated version.