Police launch hunt for biker stabbing women in Karachi

Amid a spate of stabbing incidents, Karachi Police have launched a hunt for a helmet-wearing bike-borne man who targets lone girls and women on streets and bus stands in Pakistan's biggest city.
Fear has gripped the congested Gulistan-e-Jauhar area in Pakistan's financial hub after eight attacks being reported since September 25 where girls and women were stabbed in their stomach or back by the unidentified attacker, officials said.
"We have deployed a network of personnel in plain clothes and informers to catch this apparently serial criminal," Superintendent Police, Gulshan-e-Iqbal area, Ghulam Murtaza Bhutto said.
He confirmed that since September 25 there had been half a dozen cases registered with police where victims said they were stabbed in the back or stomach by a lone motorcycle rider wearing a helmet while they were waiting at bus stops or walking alone.

Bhutto also said there have been two other incidents where the girls and their parents did not get the cases registered with the police.
An investigating officer said that the attacker had used a knife and paper cutter to attack the victims.

"All the victims are young girls aged between 14 and 25 years and each of them has been attacked while out alone on the road," he said.
"The attacker always wears a helmet, jeans and shirt, and appears to be between 25 and 30 years, according to the witnesses we have spoken to so far," the officer said.

Gulistan-e-Jauhar is one of the bigger residential and commercial areas of Karachi.