Karachi Targeted Killing
Pakistan: Religious scholar killed in targeted killing in Karachi
Karachi: In a suspected target attack incident, a religious scholar was shot dead in Karachi’s Gulistan-i-Jauhar locality on Tuesday, media reports said.
Gulistan-i-Jauhar police told Dawn News that Mufti Abdul Qayum, 45, associated with the Sunni Ulema Council was gunned down by unidentified men riding pillion on a motorcycle in the locality’s Block-9.
The incident occurred at around 7 am.
The body was later taken to Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre to fulfil legal formalities.
East-SSP, Zubair Nazeer Shaikh said that it appeared to be a targeted killing incident.
He told Dawn News the scholar, Mufti Qayum, was on foot when pillion riders fired a single bullet at his head from close range and fled.
The victim was associated with prominent religious scholar Mufti Munibur Rehman, said the SSP.
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