3 Cops shot dead in Karachi

Tuesday night turned out to be fatal for Karachi policemen when three of them, including an officer, who played an active role during the Karachi operation of the 1990s, were shot dead within an hour. A top police official claimed that the murders were not related to one another but admitted they were target killings by unknown assailants who managed to escape. A police spokesman told journalists that Assistant Sub-Inspector (ASI) Raja Moin, 47, was gunned down outside his house in Ali Town, off the Super Highway. Two men riding on a motorbike fired several shots at Moin. He was rushed to a nearby private hospital where he died during treatment. The victim was said to have worked during the Karachi operation and that he had also played an active role in the Lyari Task Force. So far more than 100 policemen and officers who played active role in Karachi Operation in 1990s had been killed In the other fatal shooting 57-year-old police constable, Ayub Aka Chacha, was shot dead near People’s Chowrangi in North Nazimabad. He was ambushed on his way home from the Taimuria police station, and suffered multiple gunshot wounds to his head and died on the spot. The third cop Ghulam Abbas, 55, was gunned down in the parking yard of the Karachi Institute of Heart Diseases in F.B. Area while trying to arrest alleged robbers. His colleague Fazalur Reghman, 50, also suffered bullet wounds and his condition was described to be serious.