'Black magic' and personal enmity surround ex-navy man's beheading

KARACHI: A suspect was taken into custody on Sunday in connection with the killing and beheading of a retired civilian employee of the Pakistan Navy whose severed head was found hanging from the Sohrab Goth flyover on Friday.

"According to reports, Saleem Raza Qaimkhani was killed because of personal enmity," reported Express News correspondent Nadeem Ahmed.

Mureed Shani who has been taken into police custody in connection with the murder said that Saleem was regularly intoxicated, and was involved in bizarre activities such as "black magic".

"His head was severed in order to make a spectacle," reported Ahmed.

A search operation is still underway to arrest the culprits.

The beheaded body of Saleem was found on Thursday. He was killed inside his house in Sector 16-4 in Buffer Zone. The police also found a Panaflex sheet along with the head on Friday.

“This [beheading] is revenge of the Rawalpindi incident,” police had originally claimed.