The presence of Extremist religious outfits and the member leaves of Taliban tree in Karachi is once again got proved On 15th of January 2009 when an encountered held at the Sohrab Goth, the same area which according to Herald is a Heaven for Taliban and Al Qaida, and a famous home for many illegal activities including drug dealing.
This time the news was much bigger because this operation soon becomes a ‘failed’ rescue operation for the kidnapped Iranian commercial attaché Hashmatullah Atharzadeh who was kidnapped on November 13 2008 from Hayatabad, Peshawar after killing his guard.
Geo reported that incident on Thursday, November 13, 2008:
PESHAWAR: Investigation into the kidnapping of Iranian Commercial Attaché has gone underway after the incident took place here on Thursday. … Unknown gunmen kidnapped Commercial Attaché of Iranian Consulate, Hashmatullah Atharzadeh after killing his guard here from Hayatabad earlier today, police said.
Our security agencies and police were busy in founding the kidnapped attaché in NWFP while he was easily shifted to Karachi bypassing all the security checks. This phenomenon of shifting Kidnapped attaché from Peshawar to Karachi explains that terrorists feels and thinks Karachi as much safer place for them as compare to Peshawar.
The encounter at Sohrab Goth, Karachi occurred on Thursday morning when militants opened fire in police party who was there to investigate the kidnapping of Iranian commercial attaché. Two policemen were killed and eleven others were injured during this operation and around 35 suspected people including four militants belonging to Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and different banned religious outfits, including Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LJ) have been arrested.
Daily Times: Shootout at Sohrab Goth
The situation of Karachi has got very sensitive and it’s getting ripped day by day. It’s not the first time when any extremist group has caught on picnic in Karachi, from the Encounter of Shah Latif Town on 29th January 2008 where five people, two of them policemen, were killed in an encounter with Jandullah a banned outfit, to this incident of 15th January 2009 where two police officials were killed in an encounter with the militants of Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and different banned religious outfits, including Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LJ), it is a long list of such incidents which clearly points towards the activities of Extremists terrorists and militants. But despite of all this over Government says ‘No, there isn’t any evidence of the presence of Taliban in Karachi’.
The question is what our government is doing?
How did those terrorists make there way safe to Karachi?
Is it compulsory for taking action to wait until these terrorist warns girl’s schools of Karachi to be shutoff?