KARACHI: Two armed men shot dead Fakhrul Islam, a Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) candidate for NA-221 and PS-47, on Thursday.
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Fakhrul Islam was shot dead in a drive-by killing in Hyderabad, the first candidate to die in the election campaign. Islam, 46, was a candidate for the MQM, a coalition partner in the outgoing government which has been threatened by the Taliban. He was killed by gunmen on motorcycles when he left the shop he owned with his father, police said. Interim Prime Minister Mir Hazar Khan Khoso ordered an immediate tightening of security for all candidates.
“We carried out this attack and shot dead Islam,” Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) spokesman Ehsanullah Ehsan told AFP from an undisclosed location. |