SHAHID QURESHI, MEMBER OF MQM MUTTAHIDA ORGANISING COMMITTEE AMONG THREE MQM WORKERS MURDERED IN COLD BLOOD BY THE INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES OF PAKISTAN AND THEIR SPONSORED TERRORISTS

Karachi: September 8, 1998

Since the MQM has came out of the coalition both at the federal as well as the provincial level, more than 12 of its workers and supporters have been ruthlessly murdered by the Intelligence Agencies and their sponsored terrorists. The policy of the State to physically eliminate Mohajirs in general and the MQM and its members in particular is continuing and not a single day passes without the reports of murders, raids, arrest and torture of MQM workers and its supporters.

Muttahida Quami Movement (MQM) is the third largest political party in Pakistan and the second largest in the province of Sindh.

A) Shahid Qureshi, age: 33 year, son of Abdul Wahid Qureshi, resident of R-37, Block 10-A, Gulshan-e-Iqbal, Karachi. He was a member of MQM Muttahida Organising Committee.

On 8 September 1998, at around 4 p.m. Karachi time, he was coming out of the KMC Head Office when an unknown terrorist riding on a motorcycle opened fire upon him with automatic weapon. He was shot in the forehead and on the side of his body. He was immediately taken to the Civil Hospital where he died

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B) In the early hours of 5 September 1998, the Haqiqi terrorists along with the personnel of Paramilitary Rangers attacked the area of Korangi in Karachi. During this attack they entered the house of Mohsin, an MQM worker, and murdered him. On their way back they spotted Azhar and opened fire upon him resulting in his death.

1- Mohsin, age: 19 year, son of Abdul Hameed, resident of House No. 1054, Sector 51-C, Korangi No. 6, Karachi. He was a worker of MQM Unit 79, Sector Korangi.

2- Azhar Mahmood, age: 22 year, son of Fazal Mahmood, resident of 51-B, Rajput Colony, Korangi No. 6, Karachi. He was a sympathiser of MQM Unit 79, Sector Korangi. He had recently shifted to Korangi from Landhi

On 5 September 1998, at around 5 p.m., the personnel of Korangi Police Station raided the place where people had gathered to attend the Quran recital for Mohsin and Azhar, who were murdered earlier by the Haqiqi Terrorists. They harassed the attendants and arrested Adnan Siddiqui, the office bearer of MQM Unit 79.

C) On 7 September 1998, at around 6.30 p.m., the Paramilitary Rangers arrested Nazar Mohammad from near KESC Billing Office at Korangi No. 3-1/2. He was blindfolded with his own shirt, taken to unknown destination and tortured.

D) On 5 September 1998, between 7 and 8 p.m., Shabab Raza 36, son of Sartaj Aziz, resident of B-22, Rudad Nagar, Nazimabad Gulbahar, Karachi, and a worker of MQM Unit 179, Sector Nazimabad, was repairing his car near Abdullah College at Ameer Service Station. A CIA police mobile and a car without numberplate raided the workshop and arrested Shabab Raza and Shahid, the owner of the workshop.

E) On 4 September 1998, at around 6 a.m., the personnel of Anti Terrorist Squad raided the house of Faisal Farooq, a worker of MQM Unit 67-A, in Gulshan-e-Iqbal and arrested him. He has been shifted to an unknown destination.

F) The personnel of Garden Police Station raided the house of Mohammad Shaukat, an MQM worker of Unit 31, Sector Lyari, and arrested him.