105 killed from January to June ’09

KARACHI - A total of 105 men, affiliated with different religious and political parties, had been killed in Sindh during the first 6 months of 2009, besides those who were killed over personal confrontation and enmity, The Nation learnt on Saturday.
A report prepared by Sindh government with the help of investigating agencies and police department revealed that most of the incidents were political/religious motivated killings.
In January 2009, two men were killed including Zafar of MQM and Agha Ashraf of ANP on January 18 and 21 respectively. In February, 3 men were targeted by some unknown assailants. These three were affiliated with PPP, Shia sect, and MQM. The names of deceased were Farrukh, Aseem, and Intishar who were killed on February 8, 20, and 24 respectively.
In March, total 7 men were killed including Hanif and Abdul Salam of PPP, Mohammad Shahzad and Ayaz Baig of ANP, and Nadeem, Muhammad Shehanshah, and Zeeshan of MQM.
April witnessed 14 dead bodies which include 2 of PPP, 6 of MQM, one of PML-N, one of MQM-H, 3 of ANP, and 1 of Deoband/Sipah Sahaba Pakistan (SSP). The names of deceased were Shams Behari, Kamal Hussain, Muzzamil, Mazharul Hasan, Rizwan, Shahrukh Rasool, Sohail Khattak, Aurangzeb, Muhammad Zafar, Azfar Rasheed, Ejaz Hussian, Shahid, Khalil, and Deen.
In May, total 11 men were killed including Nadeem, Pervez, Salahuddin, and Amanullah of SSP (defunct) while 2 of them were also affiliated with PPP, Ghafoor, Jumma Khan and Abbas of PPP, Adil Kazmi and Zeeshan of MQM, Munir Baloch of JSQM, Tausif Ahmed of Sunni Tehreek who was also affiliated with MQM-H.