MQM
WORKER RASHID QURAISHI JILANI SHOT DEAD BY ARMED
TERRORISTS OF JAMAT-E-ISLAMI AND PAKISTAN
PEOPLES PARTY IN GULISTAN –E- JOHAR, KARACHI.
Karachi 21 June 2004
According to
eyewitness reports, today at around 10.00 pm (PST) Rashid Quraishi commonly
konwn as Rashid Jilani s/o Shahbaz Quraishi Jilani an MQM worker of Gulshan-e-
Maymar Unit was brutally murdered by armed terrorists of Jamat-e-Islami, which
is part of Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal Alliance (MMA) and Pakistan Peoples Party
(PPP) who opened fire at him from point blank range. He was sitting outside the
local MQM office where he succumbed to his injuries. The terrorists were
travelling in a black colour taxi. One of the terrorists' namely Khalid Mahmood
Durrani, President of Shabab-e-Milli, a terrorists' wing of Jamat-e-Islami
has been arrested and is reportedly in police custody while Manzoor Barft and
Kado Barft, Union Councilors of Pakistan Peoples Party managed to flee from the
spot. The people of neighbourhood identified the killers and on their
information Police of Suchal Police Station, Karachi arrested Khalid Mahmood
Durrani, one of the killers, during the raid. Frantic efforts are being made by
the relatives and the witnesses that police registers an FIR (First Information
Report) against the perpetrators. (Further details
awaited.)