ARY News repoting that Rehman dakait has been killed. One (big) criminal down, few thousand more to go :k:
Re: Rehman dacoit killed !
Yeah it's quite a big news in Karachi today, i don't know what people are protesting about though. There were hundreds of people on the streets fighting with police and apparently police is on high alert. They also showed a video of police giving him ROYAL CHITROL when he was arrested last time but he escaped somehow and managed to run away.
Was he a Robin Hood or something????
Hope we get rid of political dekaits too!
Re: Rehman dacoit killed !
Killing of Rehman Dakait is big cap for PPP and its government.
Yeah it's quite a big news in Karachi today,** i don't know what people are protesting about though**. There were hundreds of people on the streets fighting with police and apparently police is on high alert. They also showed a video of police giving him ROYAL CHITROL when he was arrested last time but he escaped somehow and managed to run away. Was he a Robin Hood or something????
He was not just a "dakoo" but he was also a PPP activist I believe, so probably jiyalas close to him are protesting.
Re: Rehman dacoit killed !
Massive rally condemns killing of Rehman Baloch Monday, August 17, 2009By By our correspondent
Karachi
A large number of people on Sunday evening staged a rally outside the Karachi Press Club (KPC) against the killing of Rehman Baloch (aka Rehman Dakait) and his accomplices in an alleged police encounter, and urged the Chief Justice of Pakistan to take notice.
Speakers at the protest said: “This is our peaceful rally, today we have come to the ‘court of the media’ asking for justice. Great injustice has been meted out to the residents of Lyari. If Rehman was a Dakait, ask the policemen where they got the money from. These residents of Lyari are deprived of drinking water but they still say ‘long live Bhutto’. Once Z.A. Bhutto said Lyari is my mother. We ask President (Asif Ali Zardari) to explain it (the killing of Rehman)”
The protest, organised by the “People’s Peace Committee”, was attended in large numbers by the residents of Lyari, Malir and other areas. They came on motorcycles, trucks, coaches, buses, mini-buses and KESC vehicles, escorted by several police mobiles, which were there to control the law and order situation. Most of the attendees were teenagers, while several women and some disabled persons riding three-wheelers also participated.
Roads leading to the Governor House and Chief Minister House were closed to traffic and guarded by barricades manned by large numbers police personnel.
Participants of the rally shouted slogans against SSP Muhammad Aslam Khan (aka “Chaudhry Aslam”), who led the police party that killed Rehman Baloch in an alleged encounter some days ago in the city, and in favour of Baloch and urged the media not to refer to him as “Rehman Dakait”. They carried banners reading, “We condemn the killing of Sardar Rehman Baloch in a fake police encounter”, “We urge Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry to take notice of the fake encounter”, “End fake cases against Aziz Baloch and his aides” etc.
An announcement was made from loudspeaker fixed on a truck (from where speakers delivered speeches) that “Uzair” - who is said to have replaced Rehman Baloch - was leading the rally. However, he did not deliver a speech.
A man on the truck carried Dad Mohammed, a boy aged around five or six, who is said to be the son of Rehman Baloch. The young boy flashed victory signs at the mediafolk and the protesters.
One speaker, Rauf Baloch, said that it needed to be explained as to how Rehman Baloch was held in Balochistan and handed over to the city police for the killing.
Zafar Baloch said that President Asif Zardari should realise that Baloch was killed during his tenure. He said they would stick to a peaceful protest as “peace was the legacy” of Baloch. He said “conspiratorial elements” wanted to destabilise peace in Lyari but they would make it a centre of peace as it was his (Baloch’s) covenant.
Ms Shahida Bibi, in her hard-hitting speech against SSP Aslam, said that the police officer was not a “brave man.”
Ghaffar Baloch said that the people wanted to know the facts about the encounter.
Wasiullah Lakho said that the peaceful rally proved that “they are preachers of peace” and they would spread the mission of peace. He said that Rehman Baloch was killed because he worked to end target killings in the city. He demanded an inquiry into the encounter to expose the “conspiratorial elements” behind it.
People’s Peace Committee spokesman Zafar Baloch also distributed a statement on this occasion, which said that Abdul Rehman Baloch and his accomplices Aqeel Baloch, Nazeer Baloch, and Aurangzeb were killed in a “fake encounter” to “please certain elements”. It said that Rehman Baloch brought peace in Lyari and its adjoining areas within a short period and his contribution towards peace was evident from the fact that Lyari remained closed for three days.
They urged the chief justice to take notice and demanded a withdrawal of cases against members of the peace committees. The statement further said that people of Lyari would hold their elected representatives in the national and provincial assemblies accountable as they were conscientious people who knew what was right and what was wrong.
The committee also demanded the arrest of the killers of three Baloch youth, Nasim Brohi, Salman Brohi and Taj Mohammed Baloch, who were killed in firing at the funeral procession of Rehman Baloch.
Later, they dispersed peacefully. A police officer of Lyari Town present on the occasion told newsmen that around 5,000 people attended the rally. However, the CCPO, Karachi, Wasim Ahmed, told The News that about 2,000 people took part in the protest.