Was The Cop Insane Or Wanted To Suicide

Its strange being a part of operation against MQM, and still roaming arounf in the MQM Guddh, Yeh To Hona HI Thha …
Inspector shot dead in Karachi

KARACHI, April 23: Inspector Taufiq Zahid, a key figure in the Karachi operation launched by Gen (retd) Naseerullah Babar, was shot dead inside a mosque in the city’s Federal B. Area on Friday.

Four worshippers suffered minor injuries in the firing and were provided treatment in a private hospital, police said.

The killing came about six months after Inspector Zeeshan Kazmi’s bullet-riddled body was found in Ferozabad, on October 14, 2003. Police and eyewitnesses said that Taufiq Zahid was listening to the Friday sermon in the Mohammadi Masjid in Godhra Society, F.B. Area Block-17, when an armed man opened fire at him and fled.

Eyewitnesses said that the young man had come to the mosque with a flower basket in his hands. He went to Taufiq Zahid, took out a pistol from the basket and opened fire at him. Hospital sources said that the victim had suffered three bullet wounds, in the head, neck and chest and died instantaneously.

Police believe that two or more people took part in the murder plan and other accomplices must have been there outside the mosque on a get-away vehicle. The four injured worshippers were identified as Yaqoob, Javed Farooq and brothers Ismail and Abdul Sattar.

The firing caused commotion in the mosque, but people soon realised that the assailant had targeted one person and not all the worshippers, said Akram Ali, who was in the mosque at the time.

The body of Taufiq Zahid was taken to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital for postmortem. The body was later shifted to the Edhi morgue where several police officials who had taken part in the Karachi operation came for a last glimpse of their old associate.

Some neighbours of the victim told Dawn that Inspector Taufiq used to have two police guards with him. But on Friday, they said, the guards were not seen and he had walked to the mosque alone. The Mohammadi Masjid is at a few minutes walk from the victim’s house.

There is a police picket outside the house with instructions written on it “park your cars away from this picket”. Victim’s old associates told Dawn that he had joined the police department in 1990 as an ASI.

He served as the SHO Khwaja Ajmer Nagri, Gulshan-i-Iqbal, and twice as SHO New Karachi. His last posting in Karachi was as SHO New Karachi. His last posting was in the Interior Sindh. Zahid’s funeral prayers were offered in the Garden police lines on Friday evening.

inna lillahae wa inna ilaihae rajayoon

sigh...such incidents really hit at ur heart

truly sad :/

my parents were discussing this news item at dinner today....heart wrenching, the way it happenned...Allah only knows who's fault all this is...but theres so much hatred among some youngsters in the lower middle class of karachi who live in those areas....no matter what anyone thinks or says, i have lived in khi thru the operation and know for a fact that many innocents were killed in those days...and their sons and brothers now have this blind hatred and desire for revenge...and they target anyone they think they shud...plus poverty and unemployment only makes things worse....

this man was killed in the mosque...and it is said that this is shahadat...

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*Originally posted by irem: *
no matter what anyone thinks or says, i have lived in khi thru the operation and know for a fact that many innocents were killed in those days...
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What you have said is enough cause for treason in Pakistan.

waqai? :hehe: :stuck_out_tongue:

Imdad seeing your postings on this board i’m not surprised abt what you told me happenned with you in SMCS :stuck_out_tongue:

Bachpan se hi troublemaking kee aadat hay aap k andar lagta hay :smiley: :hoonh: Do you actually mean the stuff you say on this board or do you just say it to create mischief? :confused:

i talked to this cab driver yesterday who drives in that area where the cop was shot dead.
when i expressed concerns over the killing his words were:
"wo tulla konsa shareef aadmi thaa, pata nahi kitne maare, marwaye, sharaabi, kabaaabi...aisi hi nahi maarta koi kisi ko...aise hi nahi jaani dushmani banti..." and the cab driver wasnt an MQM guy. he came from Gujrat and had been in karachi in the mid 90s.

Not at all irem, everyone in karachi knows the brutality of those who have still not had justice handed to them.

Even Haris can't deny this.

It's just that mohajirs always bring pakistan first over their own sufferings and don't make too much noise over it anymore.

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*Originally posted by Imdad Ali: *
Not at all irem, everyone in karachi knows the brutality of those who have still not had justice handed to them.

Even Haris can't deny this.

It's just that mohajirs always bring pakistan first over their own sufferings and don't make too much noise over it anymore.
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does this justify this murder?
sure it may be wrong operation or wasnt handled well enough. and innocent people got victomised.
but I am sure this inspector wasnt the whole designer of this plan. good or bad he must have acted on orders from the government at that time.
marna hey tou usko maro jo bi command mein tha, or who ordered this brutality. dont kill the pawns.

I didn't say it was justified, but then again, when has justice ever occurred in pakistan at the hands of the govnt and army.

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*Originally posted by Imdad Ali: *
I didn't say it was justified, but then again, when has justice ever occurred in pakistan at the hands of the govnt and army.
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Ohh please give me a break, who so ever did this should pay!

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*Originally posted by irem: *
inna lillahae wa inna ilaihae rajayoon

sigh...such incidents really hit at ur heart

truly sad :/

my parents were discussing this news item at dinner today....heart wrenching, the way it happenned...Allah only knows who's fault all this is...but theres so much hatred among some youngsters in the lower middle class of karachi who live in those areas....no matter what anyone thinks or says, i have lived in khi thru the operation and know for a fact that many innocents were killed in those days...and their sons and brothers now have this blind hatred and desire for revenge...and they target anyone they think they shud...plus poverty and unemployment only makes things worse....

this man was killed in the mosque...and it is said that this is shahadat...
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but theres so much hatred among some youngsters in the lower middle class of karachi who live in those areas.

Which areas.

Areas that were invaded by the army

:konfused: Invasion in Karachi?
Or do you mean FATA?

If it is FATA, well it was a long time over due!

I'm talking about Karachi.

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*Originally posted by Imdad Ali: *
I'm talking about Karachi.
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Amm, only one problem. Karachi has been part of Pakistan since partition, so what are you talking about?