From Zeeshan Mirza
KARACHI: Karachi police chief Additional Inspector General Khadim Hussain Rind on Wednesday suspected the involvement of India’s spy agency RAW in the killing of caretaker of a mosque in Karachi’s Gulistan-e-Johar area late Tuesday.
Ziaur Rehman, 45, the Mohtamim of Jamia Masjid Abu Bakar, was gunned down in Karachi’s Gu-listan-e-Jauhar on Tuesday night.
The cleric Ziaur Rehman was walking inside a park near his residence close to the FBR Office in Jo-har’s Block-14 when two men riding on a motorcycle shot and injured him before fleeing. The vic-tim was rushed to a hospital where he was pronounced dead.
The police said deceased Sheikh Zia ur Rahman was the mahatmam (administrator) of Jamia Abu Bakr Madrassah (seminary) – which is located in Gulshan’s Block 5. In a statement today, Karachi police chief Khadim Hussain Rind said the incident was an act of ter-rorism and it aimed to disrupt the law and order in the city ahead of Rabiul Awwal.
He directed the DIG East to conduct an inquiry and submit a report. He also ordered the immedi-ate arrest of the culprits.
Rind further said that the CTD had collected important pieces of evidence from the scene, and the initial investigation showed that the secret agency of a neibhouring country, RAW, could be in-volved in the incident.
He said that investigators had collected seven empties of a 9mm pistol and three empties of a 30-bore pistol.
