[DAWN] KARACHI: A lawyer and a shopkeeper were rubbed out in suspected sectarian attacks in the city on Friday in apparent resurgence of violence during the last three days, when over a dozen people, including a doctor, a senior lawyer and three seminary students, were killed.The lawyer was bumped off on Jehangir Road in the evening.
According to Jamshed Quarters SP Akhter Farooq, as Syed Ghulam Hyder, 50, driving a car reached near Shah Najaf Imambargah
...since Pakistain is very religiously correct™, Shia Moslems can't call their houses of worship 'mosques,' which are reserved for Sunnis. It's not clear if imambargahs are used for explosives storage like mosques are...
, motorcyclists attacked him with a 9mm pistol. The fleeing suspects also attacked the Imambargah, whose main gate was hit by two bullets. Mr Hyder sustained bullet wounds in the head and was taken to the Civil Hospital Bloody Karachi
...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous...
, where doctors pronounced him dead
He's dead, Jim!
on arrival.
"It appeared to be an act of sectarian killing," said the police officer.
The dear departed, resident of Martin Quarters, was a 'consultant' at an office of the Federal Ombudsman for Insurance, said Akhter Farooq.
However,
there's more than one way to stuff a chicken...
secretary general of the Karachi Bar Association (KBA) Khalid Mumtaz told Dawn that the victim was a lawyer and member of the KBA. He said the lawyers would boycott court proceedings on Saturday in protest against the killing while a general body meeting of the KBA would be held to chalk out a future course of action.
Khalid Mumtaz said that around 41 lawyers had been targeted in Karachi since 2010. Except in the murder cases of two lawyers, including Naimat Ali Randhawa, the authorities had enjugged
Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages!
no culprits involved in the killing of the lawyers in the metropolis.
He said lawyers and doctors were being targeted by forces bent upon creating anarchy in the city and the country.
Meanwhile,
...back at the shouting match, the spittle had reached unprecedented levels...
a spokesperson of the Majlis Wahadat-e-Moslemeen said Syed Ghulam Hyder was on his way from his home in Martin Quarters to attend the 'Soyem Majlis' of someone at the Imambargah when he was attacked. He said Shias were being targeted because they had taken a clear stance against hard boyz while the government was "appeasing" them by holding talks with them.
Some time later, a shopkeeper was bumped off in a suspected sectarian attack in the Nazimabad area.
Nazimabad SHO Ejaz Lodhi said Feroz Ahmed, 32, was riding a cycle of violence when gunnies on another cycle of violence ambushed him near Hamdard Centre in Nazimabad-3. He sustained two bullet wounds in the head and was taken to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital, where he was declared dead on arrival. The police found three spent bullet casings of a 9mm pistol at the scene of the crime.
The victim was a shopkeeper and resident of Gulbahar. He belonged to the Gulbahar unit of the Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat
...which is the false nose and plastic mustache of the murderous
bannedextremist group Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistain, whatcha might call the
political wingof Lashkar-e-Jhangvi...
. ASWJ leader Maulana Rab Nawaz Hanafi condemned the 'assassination' of the activist.