Aman Committee’s new leaders have no criminal past: Mirza

ISLAMABAD: Sindh’s Senior Minister Dr. Zulfiqar Mirza Tuesday said the people who took charge of People’s Aman Committee following the death of Rehman Dacoit, had no criminal record whatsoever.

Talking to media on arriving in the federal capital, firebrand Mirza stressed there was no point in beating the drum of Peace Committee, stressing actual reasons of restiveness in the metropolis be made public.

Defending Aman Committee, Zulfiqar Mirza remarked People’s Aman Committee had no existence now, as its leaders had announced to abolish the organization after it was banned.

“Rehman Dacoit was killed when I was home minister,” Mirza added. TrendPK

Khyber: Peace Committee chief escapes bomb attack

Khyber Agencys Peace Committee Chief Umar Gul escaped a life attempt when a remote-controlled bomb went off at Qambarabad area of Tehsil Bara, Dunya News reported on Wednesday.
Some 8 people including Gul sustained severe injuries in the roadside explosion.
The explosives used material in the bomb, planted at a roadside, was so powerful that a bang was heard far and wide.
Security forces cordoned off the area; rescue efforts have been kicked off as the inured are being shifted to nearby hospitals.

Protest against Lyari operation

Staff Report

KARACHI: People of Lyari held protest against the rangers and police operation in the area Sunday.

CCPO Karachi Fayaz Laghari said that the rangers and police conducted the operation in the area after founding two bodies from Dhobi Ghat last night.

Fifteen mobiles participated the search operation in Aath Chowk. Area residents, included women, came out on the road against the operation and blocked the road in the area.

Aziz Baloch, the chief of Aman Committee (peace committee), condemning the rangers’ operation, told media persons that such act would not be tolerated in future. SAMAA

MQM says Sindh govt., ANP involved in target killings

Staff Report

KARACHI: Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) has said that the Sindh government and Awami National Party (ANP) are involved in target killings in Karachi.

A meeting of MQM’s Coordination Committee is being held in Karachi and London where, sources told, party leaders are considering different options.

Sources also said that the committee will also call a meeting tonight to review the prevailing situation in metropolis.

Haidar Abbas Rizvi, MQM leader, while talking to SAMAA alleged that Sindh government along with ANP is making the city’s situation abnormal in the name of Aman Committee (peace committee). SAMAA

5 shot dead as chaos rules Karachi

Another five persons have fallen prey to targeted killings and other incident of torture on Saturday in Karachi.
According to police, some unidentified felons sprayed bullets at parked taxis, killing a taxi driver while a passenger riding a bus injured at Banaras Chowk, Orangi Town. One Asif Iqbal is killed by firing of unknown criminals at Metrool, Orangi while a bullet-riddled body of a youth is found from Site Area. Activist of Peace Committee Imran has been gunned down in Khada Market, Lyari. In Nazimabad, a doctor got injured when some men opened fire at his clinic located at Paposh Nagar. So far, as many as 34 people have been mowed down in the recent spate of targeted killing.

Mohmand: Six killed in landmine blast

At least six volunteers of Peace Committee have been killed while 4 others injured in a landmine explosion in Mohmand Agency, Dunya News reported on Saturday.
As per official sources, a blast took place in a landmine at a Peace Committees checkpost at Bahidog Chowk, Tehsil Baizai. Resultantly, 6 volunteers were killed while 4 wounded. The injured have been shifted to Peshawar Hospital.

Assassination spike threatens new Pakistan flashpoint

QUETTA: Targeted killings happen so often in Pakistan”s city of Quetta, they have become almost routine. Assassins drive up, fire a hail of bullets and melt into shadows as their victims bleed to death.

Heading to and from work, or nipping to the shops, fear grips professional men and women in the southwestern province of Baluchistan, where a sharp increase in assassinations is being blamed on separatist rebels.

An upsurge in killings threatens to ignite the southwestern tinder box, with possible consequences for neighbouring Iran and Afghanistan, and heavyweight allies China and the United States.

Last week Nazima Talib became the most high-profile female victim, shot dead at point blank range as she got into a rickshaw to go home after another long day teaching mass communication at Balochistan University.

A mother of one, she was the third member of staff killed in the past two years. Now others wonder whether they will return home at the end of a day”s work.

“Gunmen are roaming around killing teachers…. They have left us at the mercy of terrorists. I won”t go to the university under these circumstances,” said Farkhanda Aurangzaib, a professor in the English department.

Police say sectarian and ethnic targeted killings in Baluchistan have claimed 87 lives and injured 303 people in 168 incidents so far this year.

The killings embarrass the police, who concede that none of the assassins has been arrested, have forced some teachers to flee and fanned insecurity.

Hundreds of people have died since Baluch rebels rose up in 2004 demanding independence and control of profits from natural resources in their region.

Baluchistan, which makes up 40 percent of the country”s landmass, is rich in oil and gas — both desperately needed in energy-starved Pakistan.

For decades, its people have felt excluded or marginalised by the central government and the province has long been a fertile breeding ground for Taliban and Al-Qaeda-linked militants as well as separatist rebels.

The Baloch Liberation Army (BLA), a banned group fighting for an independent Baluchistan, claimed responsibility for Talib”s death, threatened more killings and accused Pakistani security forces of mistreating Baluch women.

3 Wounded As Bomb Hit Peace Body Convoy:Peshawar

Three persons were injured when a remote-controlled bomb hit a peace committee convoy in Adezai, a suburb area of Peshawar today.
Resultantly, three passers-by wounded. However, leader peace committee Noor Malik said that all the people boarding the car remained safe. Police threw cordon around the area immediately after the blast.

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3 Wounded As Bomb Hit Peace Body Convoy:Peshawar was first posted on February 23, 2010 at 12:34 pm.

CM Punjab Advisor Saeed Mehdi Resigns

LAHORE, Pakistan News: Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif’s adviser Saeed Mehdi has resigned from office as his name is included in the list of NRO beneficiaries.
Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has accepted the resignation and called it a positive tradition.
Mehdi had announced to resign in an organizational meeting of the party chaired by PML-N Quaid Nawaz Sharif. Mehdi maintained he hadn’t enjoyed any perk under NRO, adding that he is innocent. “I will prove my innocence in court. But I think it is not justified to continue working as adviser to CM morally,” he added.

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CM Punjab Advisor Saeed Mehdi Resigns was first posted on November 23, 2009 at 4:01 pm.

Clashes in Mohmand Agency, One killed

MOHMAND AGENCY, Pakistan News : One militant has been killed in recent clashes between members of peace committee and militants in Spangi Tangi area of Mohmand Agency.

According to the channel, one militant was killed and other three arrested in the recent clashes between peace committee and militants, while the committee demolished terrorists’ hideout.

Security forces have started search operation in various areas.

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Clashes in Mohmand Agency, One killed was first posted on November 23, 2009 at 4:49 pm.

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