KARACHI: Intense firing creates panic in Dhoraji -DAWN - Local; August 09, 2008
KARACHI: Intense firing creates panic in Dhoraji
By Our Staff Reporter
KARACHI, Aug 8: Tension gripped New Dhoraji Society and adjoining areas located on Abul Hasan Isphahani Road as two groups traded intense fire late in a shoot-out that continued into the early hours of Friday. However, no casualty was reported in the incident, police said.
Anticipating what they described as a Taliban offensive around the Dhoraji Society, area youths belonging to the Muttahida Qaumi Movement were keeping a watch on any sort of suspicious activity during the night when some people said to be residing in Al Asif Square and neighboring settlements allegedly opened fire on them, police said.
This triggered a retaliatory response from the area youths and the exchange of fire continued for several hours, creating panic in the adjoining localities.
Sources in the police said that members of both the groups were called to the office of the Gulshan DSP on Friday evening. They were asked to desist from such activities in future with a warning that cases would be registered against them for creating a law and order situation in the area, the sources added.
A few weeks ago a firing incident on Abul Hasan Isphahani Road, which links University Road and the Super Highway, claimed three lives. Each deceased belonged to a different group.
Is this the beginning of “Taliban” attacks? or just patakhay?