Month: August 1997

23 August 1997
Abdul Shafique, aged 26 years, son of Abdul Hafeez, resident of S-R-292, Nishtar Basti, PIB Colony, Karachi, a worker of MQM Unit 58, Sector PIB Colony. At around 1.30 p.m., he went to Liaquatabad C-Area, Karachi, to meet his relatives. He was stopped and identified as an MQM worker by Ejaz Butt, a notorious drug peddler of the area. Ejaz Butt who was accompanied by his gunmen, opened fire at Abdul Shafique and killed him on the spot.

10 August 1997
DR. JAFFAR ABBAS, INCHARGE OF MQM MEDICAL AID COMMITTEE, MURDERED BY ARMED TERRORISTS
Dr. Jaffar Abbas, aged 35 years, son of Syed Zaheer Hassan Zaidi, resident of Abbasi Shaheed Hospital, incharge MQM Medical Aid Committee and Deputy Superintendent Abbasi Shaheed Hospital. On 10 August 1997, Dr. Jaffar Abbas, the Deputy Medical Superintendent of Abbasi Shaheed Hospital, at present the Acting Superintendent and the incharge of MQM Medical Aid Committee, returned to the Nursing Mess, where he resided, after routine check-up of medical wards. At around 4 p.m., while he was coming out of the Nursing Mess of Abbasi Shaheed Hospital to go to his office, armed terrorists who were waiting for him to come out of the Nursing Mess of Abbasi Shaheed Hospital opened bursts of gunfire upon him. Dr. Jaffar Abbas tried to escape but unfortunately was not able do so. He received bullet shot wounds behind his neck and at the chest. Immediately afterwards the medical staff of the Abbasi Hospital took him to the operation theatre and tried their best to save his life but Dr. Jaffar Abbas succumbed