A local leader of the forbidden religionolitical group Ahle Sunnat Waljamaat (ASWJ) was shot dead while his father was injured in an alleged attack directed in Landhi de Karachi on Sunday night, according to police officers and the party.
Quaidabad Sho Rana Khushi Mohammed said: “The victims were in a store in the Sherpao neighborhood when the armed suspects on a motorcycle came there.”
“One of them landed from the bicycle and opened fire before fleeing from the scene,” said the sho, added that the victims were seriously injured and transported to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Center to receive treatment.
“Qari Abdul Rehman was declared dead while his father Gul Rehman was admitted to receive treatment,” said Sho Mohammed.
The officer said it seemed to be a target murder incident.
ASWJ spokesman, Umar Muawia Dawn.com That the late Qari Abdul Rehman was president of the party Sherpao of the party. He described the murder “an act of terrorism.”
Meanwhile, the unidentified body of a man in about 30 years was recovered from an empty plot in the Murad Goth area of the city of Arguani with a gunshot wound on the head on Sunday night, according to the police.
The body was transferred to the Abbasi Shaheed hospital for legal formalities.
Earlier this month, a local PPP leader was shot dead in an alleged attack directed in the Dalmia de Karachi area, according to the police.
Aziz Bhatti Shoeed Ahmed Dharejo police had said Dawn.com: “The PPP leader, Faiq Khan, 40, was standing outside his home in Shanti Nagar when the unknown suspects shot him and killed him.”
The officer said he suspected that some personal enmity was behind the murder. However, the general secretary of PPP Sindh, Waqar Mehdi Dawn.com: “It was an objective murder when the suspects shot the deceased in the head.”
