According to details, unidentified assailants on a motorcycle fired on the officer, when he was going towards his house after parking his car, fatally wounding him.
Identified as Qamar Raza, the officer was rushed to Abbasi Shaheed hospital in critical condition.
Even as doctors administered treatment, he succumbed to his injuries.
Earlier in July, a Crime Investigation Department (CID) officer was shot dead.
CID sub-inspector Ghufran Amin was shot dead near his house in Pathan Colony. He was the third CID officer to have been killed in a month.
The police said that Amin’s murder was part of an ongoing series of revenge killings of police officers taking action against target killers and extortionists.
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