Notorious Lyari gangster Baba Ladla killed in shootout with Rangers

KARACHI: Notorious Lyari gangster Noor Muhammad alias Baba Ladla was killed early Thursday morning along with his two accomplices in a shootout, Sindh Rangers confirmed.

According to a Rangers spokesperson, in an intelligence-based operation paramilitary forces arrived at the Lyari's Phoolpatti lane. Suspects hidden inside houses fired at the personnel from the rooftop. In retaliatory fire, three suspects were killed on the spot while three others managed to flee.

Sources informed that accomplices killed along with the prime suspect were Sikandar alias Sikko and Ladla`s uncle, Yaseen Baloch. At least one LEA personnel was injured in the operation. As many as 15 Rangers` mobiles were used in this operation.    

Ranger's press release can be viewed here

The deceased gangsters were shifted to Civil Hospital for medico-legal formalities, after their post-mortem the deceased will be shifted to Edhi morgue. Heavy contingents of police and Rangers is deployed around the hospital.  

Ladla was wanted by Sindh government for more than 74 cases including murder, attempts to murder and extortion cases. His name was in Sindh Police’s ‘Red Book’ with Rs 1,000,000 bounty for his capture. He was key suspect in the brutal Arshad Pappu murder case, and the murder of five people including Haji Aslam and his five sons in Dalmia area.

A hand grenade and automatic weapons were recovered from the terrorists, a statement by Rangers said.

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Baba Ladla - Profile

Baba Ladla was born in 1977 in Lyari’s Chakiwara area. He entered the murky world of drug and crime in the late 80s, when gangster Haji Lalu trained his son Arshad Pappu, Abdur Rehman alias Rahman Dakait and Noor Muhammad alias Baba Ladla.

In their initial years, they all worked together, but in 1997 differences propped up between Haji Lalu and Rahman Dakait over a kidnapping incident. Haji Lalu with his son Arshad Pappu parted ways.  

After Rehman Dakait was killed on August 9, 2009, Baba Ladla became Lyari’s uncrowned king. His network of terror included kidnapping for ransom, extortion, target killing and drugs.

As Baba Ladla got stronger, Uzair Baloch of the banned Aman Committee took him under his support. During this period rival gang leader Arshad Pappu was killed brutally. But after 2013, in the holy month of Ramzan a bomb blast during a football match, created fissures between Uzair Baloch and Baba Ladla.

After this Baba Ladla joined a gang run by Ghaffar Zikri and some left over gangsters from Arshad Pappu’s gang.