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Seven injured in ANP, JSQM clash
* Mob sets
ablaze four shops, four vehicles
* Police say vehicles caught fire by accident
KARACHI: At least five vehicles and five shops including a tea
stall were set ablaze in Korangi area when members of the Jeay Sindh
Qaumi Mohaz (JSQM) and Awami National Party (ANP) collided on
Tuesday within the jurisdiction of Korangi Industrial Area police
station. A
JSQM worker sitting at the tea stall in Bilal Colony fought with the
ANP members over selling of a tape recorder.
Intense firing was reported in the area during which at least seven
people were injured and taken to hospital.The injured included
Ikhtiyar Ahmed, Amjad, Riaz Hussain, Imtiaz Hussain, Ayaz Hussain,
Ilyas and Ahmed Afzal.
Ablaze: Sources said following the clash, a mob ransacked the tea
stall, and set ablaze four other shops, four vehicles including
three buses of a private company and a car. However, police claimed
the cars caught fire accidentally. Korangi Town SP Ather Rasheed
Butt told Daily Times both the groups had reached to an agreement.
He added that no shop was set on fire while the vehicles were burnt
because of a fire that erupted in a garbage dump.The mob also burnt
tyres and erected barricades on various routes while pelting stones
at passing vehicles. Heavy contingents of security forces rushed to
the area. No cases have been registered or arrests made so far.
Separately, Sindh ANP President Shahi Syed vowed that a strike would
be observed on May 12 to pay tributes to the people who sacrificed
their lives for the cause of freedom of the judiciary. In a meeting
with the members of the Pakhtoon Action Committee, Syed hoped that
the transporters would participate in the strike.
“The aim of the strike is to fight for the cause for which the
martyrs of May 12, 2007 sacrificed their lives,” he said
(Daily
Times:Wednesday, April 29, 2009:Staff
Report)
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