MQM WORKER MOHAMMAD NADEEM YAQUB RUTHLESSLY MURDERED IN KARACHI

 21 September 2000

Today, between 4 pm and 4.30 pm (Pakistan Time), during a hockey match, two armed assailants climbed the walls of the UBL Sports Complex in Block 16, Federal B Area, Karachi; and ruthlessly murdered Mohammad Nadeem Yaqub, a worker of MQM Unit 66-b, Sector Gulshan-e-Iqbal.  According to first information received at the MQM International Secretariat in London, these armed assailants came with the intention of targeting Mohammad Nadeeem Yaqub. They grabbed him and fired several gunshots from very close range.  Mohammad Nadeem Yaqub was shot five times in the face and skull.  He was immediately taken to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital in a very critical condition where he succumbed to his injuries and died.

Muttahida Quami Movement (MQM) is the third largest political party of Pakistan and the second largest in the province of Sindh.  Since the commencement of the Army Operation to crush the MQM on 19 June 1992, more than 15000 of its workers and supporters have been ruthlessly and mercilessly extrajudicially murdered at the hands of intelligence agency and their armed terrorists in the urban centres of Sindh, particularly Karachi and Hyderabad.

Mohammad Nadeem Yaqub, age: 28 years, unmarried and a resident of Raza Square, Rashid Minhas Road, Gulshan-e-Iqbal, Karachi.  He was a very active worker of Muttahida Quami Movement (MQM) and a very good hockey player and represented the District East Hockey Team of Karachi.  At the time of incident, he was participating as a player in a hockey match between District East and District South teams at the UBL Sports Complex.