RIP, The government needs to deweaponize the entire city if peace has to be restored. Rangers are doing their best but complete deweaponizatin of Karachi may require cooperation of each and every peaceful citizen of Karachi and help to the rangers by the police and the army. This needs to be done on war footing. Those found with illegal arms should be given strict possible punishment.

Have the police and rangers failed in combating crimes. How effective is our intelligence and coordination.

....and the govt claims the "targeted operation" has achieved its goal. What were those goals??

@Shamsher The Goals were to Keep MQM under control of Establishment..

Just another day in this tormented city...very sad!

Another Doctor of Medicine Bite the Bullets and the dust , in this Land of pure . In a nation where Patients to a Doctor ration of over 10000+ which is already the lowest in the world , Its mind twisting Shock to read How on earth , any one can even attempt to do any physical Harm to these sacred people let alone cut them down into pieces ? After having gone through the hardship ( Physical , emontional , Financial ) of over a decade by getting 3 of my children to bceome practicing Dcotors and thus serve the humanity at large , My heart filled sympathy is with the agrieved parents and family of the Noble dead Doctor . How even a bare human being , could ever think of killing a defenseless human being let alone a Doctor of medicines ???

City has become too big and ungovernable. It should be divided into 2 to 3 cities. One city should be part of Sindh, another one independent union territory and the third part part of Baluchistan. It will solve so many problems.

complete chos and failure of law and order in pakistan

When target killers are caught, yet supported, aquitted, served while in prison, than why blame the securities. NA 246 is an example of above. It's not about right or wrong, it's about supporting who you identify with, even if they are target killers. So it is natural that such crimes will keep happening. So accept it and move on. Rlection mandate has supported such political leaders all over Pakiatan.

karaachi is the dangerous place on the earth. pakistan government should take the responsibility for this helpless situation.

When will this killings stop? No place is safe. Terrorism is killing millions of people. Stop this radicalization

Recently,eight soldiers were killed in north east India by Naga terrorists, and a Pakistani reader commented'As usual in India'.Let us not mock tragedies.Terrorism must be condemned and got rid of by all means.

AAAAHH! One more doctor has sacrifice his life but despite full action order my city's law enforcement forces could not do anything. This is another question mark on their position.

After their win in by-election they are now more emboldened.

Seems another sectarian killing.

Enemy of Pakistan is again starting dirty business after little break. It means thousand of enemy agents have been operating from different locations. System is slacken or enemy has sharp tools.

Sectarian target killing within Muslim community, what chance do non Muslims, like Christians, Hindus,Sikhs have against these target killers ?

Why are these criminals targeting doctors? Is it because they reduce the death toll when they conduct blasts in the city...?

@Muhammad Farooq humans were killing each other and also non-humans long before what we know as weapons were made.

Who is ruling and governing Karachi for the last 25 years is totally responsible for disrupting the peace of the city. It seems the rulars themselves don't want peace and have some other intentions. Who has more powers - the city'government or the target killers ?

@Karachi Wally I agree completely.

We strongly condemn this act of barbarianism.... I think some one is working on a long-term agenda of making our youth 'ILLITERATE' by killing our educated class...a highly respected Doctors / teachers / journalist etc..... The government is acting like a passive observer,,,where is command-n-control and writ of the government??

Classify as Target killing, an easy way out for police to do nothing.

Doesn't Pakistan have gun control?? Karachi is a metro city right?

Deweaponising the city is far from the solution to the menace of target killings and "rob n kill as you go" killings. stolen weapons, stolen bikes, are unfortunately available with our country's most corrupt LEA, the Police. Though it may sound farfetched but these "na maloom afraad" who kill and disappear are operating from the very jails inside Karachi. The Police know the killers inside out. Let's hope Rangers are going to shut down the Police Department soon if they are serious enough in bringing peace to Karachi. Otherwise, even if all political parties and their leaderships are nabbed, these killings will still continue and public will remain oblivious to the aforementioned million dollar fact.

Great shouting by PMLN that targeted killing is finished is not true. PMLN is suggested to make an other coridor effort with China to get rid of this target killing in Karachi.

@Guest65 maybe some of these doctors need to pay attention to the needs of their patients instead of fleecing them.A lot of patients die due To the negligence and incompetence of some doctors in Pakistan and there is no procedure for punishment or for compensation to the the effected people. It is no wonder some people take the law into their hands take and revenge.

Thats SINDH GOVT responsibility

This mans unfortunate death doesn't mean the karachi operation was a failure. Karachi is safer now, and other assassinations may have been stopped.

the time has come when living in jungle with predator is more safer then living with humans in cities. :)

@Amartya Mishra : Easier said than done !!

@Muhammad Farooq A great number of stockades would need to built to hold all the prisoners. That would make Pakistan look like a police state. We'll see.

@Anwar They have not failed. People underestimated the problem. Karachi has a high threshold for pain.

@magesh there are other cities of the world potentially dangerous and problemetic . Karachi is willingly hostile and meaningful killing have been continuously carrying on despite our 40% of Karachi area consist of cantonment area. The govt will clear all these monsters within 1 or 2 weeks but it requires determination, honesty and willingess.

@Shamsher They "goals" have been withdrawn for the present. It is a time for reorganizing and planning strategy.

@Karachi Wally That's reasonable, but it would need to be mandated. The local politicians are not about to give up power.

@sandeep The chaos is not complete yet.

Crime history of Karachi shows that whichever political party condemns incidents of killing or arson first, is the one involved. Guess who ?

@g umesh That my friend is the purpose of civil wars.

@Asma No. It's not that. The rulers don't want to be targeted themselves. In Karachi they are just as afraid as everyone one else.

@Faith They may be part of the drug cartel. They may be telling police not to make arrests.

@neil Karachi is controlled by rural Feudals and Federal agencies the city's local bodies who are answerable to the city have no role in managing the city. It is a disenfranchised city that is being torn apart.

The people of Karachi vote for these two parties everytime. So that means they are satisfied and content. For them this is nothing too different from the usual.

The article should state probable reason of murder as well. Currently criminals such as extortionists, land mafia, political parties, RAW, turf gangs are all active in murderous activities.

It is confirmed by the supmreme court as well by the intelligence findings that political parties have millitants wing. Rangers and armed forces of Pakistan are fightings against all these terrorist elements with courage it is the duty of all peace loving citizen to help our brave forces who trying to bring calm to the cities. It is the responsibilty of the civil government to disarm the whole nation. Legal or illegal arms should be taken away ASAP only the law enforcing agencies are allowed to have arms. This type of target killing will only stops when these political militant wings are completely rooted out with even hands, targeting one political party and let have free hands to thers will not produce the desired result. All should be treated with iron hand and the justice be made visible and clear to all citizen, then it will bear the fruit.

The Governor of Sind and the Chief Minister have been completely ineffective and hopeless in bringing law and order in the city for a long time and both should be removed.

what are these Rangers doing , where ever these rangers go they bring chaos in that city so they can get some reason to stay more and make more money To hell with these governance.

MQM trying to remain relevant.