According to the police, a main lawyer was shot dead while his son was injured in an alleged objective attack in Karachi’s defense housing authority on Friday afternoon.
South Deputy General Inspector (DIG) Syed Asad Raza said Dawn.com that the shot took place after a funeral prayer in a mosque in phase 6 of DHA.
“As a lawyer Khawaja Shamsul Islam and his son [Khawaja Daniyal, 25] They were about to leave the mosque, a lonely armed man apparently turned to shoot them and fled, “the excavation said.” Both father and son were shot and transported to a private hospital in Clifton, where Islam succumbed to their wounds. “
The excavation added that during preliminary investigation, it happened that a plaintiff nominated the lawyer killed in a murder case, while in a posterior incident, Islam suffered injuries in Clifton.
Preparing in cases, Dig Raza recalled that in 2021, the plaintiff presented a first information report (FIR) before the Barco basin police against six to seven suspects not identified by allegedly killing his father.
“The plaintiff also tried to nominate Khawaja Shamsul Islam, but could not provide evidence. Therefore, the case was eliminated as ‘a’ class (not coincident) through the DSP Clifton Division Jahanzaib Khan Division,” said the excavation, “said the excavation,” said the excavation. ” Dawn.com.
Regarding the second incident, which occurred in 2024, the excavation said that the plaintiff, another defender, presented a fir claiming that while they were heading to Isha’s prayers with Khawaja Shamsul Islam in the neighborhood of Zamzama de Karachi, they were “ambushed by the plaintiff in the first case along with 15-20 armed accomplices.”
“The attackers used firearms, iron rods and sticks, hurting Khawaja Shamsul Islam,” he said, adding that the attackers had gathered outside the mosque.
Dig Raza said the police conducted a preliminary investigation of last year’s attack and some suspects were also arrested by the police. However, the case was later transferred to the Special Research Unit (SIU)/Crime Research Agency (CIA) Karachi as a “extortion issue.”
The official prepared that a police security guard had been provided to Islam. “By the way, Pailce’s guard was out of the mosque at the time of the attack. The lawyer and his son were attacked inside the mosque.”
The excavation added that the private security guards of the mosque have been arrested to interrogate.
The body of the murdered lawyer was transferred to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Center for legal formalities. Police surgeon Dr. Sumaiya Syed said Dawn.com that the defender suffered “injury for firearms in his chest, damaging vital organs and leading to an irreversible hemorrhagic shock.”
The excavation has constituted a special team under the supervision of the South SSP to arrest the people, who murdered the defender and injured his son.
The official said that the main suspect was the son of a police officer deployed for the security of Islam in the past when the witnesses heard him say that he had “revenge” for his father’s murder.
In a statement issued today, the Karachi lawyers association condemned the murder of Islam and announced that its members will not appear before any court on August 2 (Saturday) to express its solidarity with the Laywer Senior killed.
In April of this year, a judge and a lawyer were shot dead in an armed attack against the highway in the Nowshera district.
Nowshera’s attached commissioner Irfanullah Mehsud said Dawn.com That one of those killed, Mohammad Hayat, was working as a civil judge in Mardan and belonged to the Swat district.
“The other person was identified as Khalid Khan, a lawyer, belonging to the Rustam de Mardan area, who accompanied the judge.”
Mehsud said they died on the spot and that the bodies were transferred to the Qazi Hussain Ahmed medical complex.
