Kazmi, son of Mustafa Haider Kazmi and son-in-law of renowned scholar Allama Talib Jauhri, was shot dead in Block 13-D in Gulshan-e-Iqbal, within the limits of the Aziz Bhatti police station.
The deceased was on his way to home, when at least four armed men riding on two motorcycles targeted him.
“While going home, he had stopped his car to buy mangoes. Moments after he bought the mangoes and restarted his car, armed motorcyclists opened indiscriminate fire at him,” says Aziz Bhatti DSP Nasir Lodhi.
“Armed assailants were already following him and targeted him with proper planning,” DSP Lodhi added. He was shot at least four times and died on the spot. His body was taken to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre for autopsy.
Police officials hinted that he could have been targeted for his sect, adding that Kazmi belonged to the Shia community. Further investigation are underway.
DSP Lodhi further claimed that an encounter with Kazmi’s assailants also took place, in which one of the assailants was injured. However, they managed to escape.
Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah condemned the killing. He directed the Inspector General Sindh Police to arrest the culprits involved in the murder, Radio Pakistan reported.
In a separate incident, Huma, 45, was killed and her husband Bilal, 55, and son Hussain, 24, were wounded when armed motorcyclists opened indiscriminate fire at their Toyota Corolla car in the Kareemabad locality within the limits of the Azizabad police station.
The woman died on the spot, while her husband and son were admitted in the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital where doctors described their condition as out of danger.
DSP Saleem Akhtar Siddiqui said that the victims belong to the Shia community, and were returning to their home in Nazimabad after visiting someone in Gulshan-e-Maymar when armed motorcyclists targeted them. Authorities believe that the attack was motivated by sectarian differences.
Further investigations into the attack are underway.
Majlis-e-Wahdat-e-Muslieem (MWM) leader Allama Nasir Abbas Jafri condemned the incidents of target killings, and said that since Ramazan had begun, 15 people belonging to the Shia community had been killed in Karachi.
He lamented that law enforcement agencies (LEAs) had failed to arrest the culprits responsible for the latest wave of sectarian violence. He demanded the government and LEAs to crackdown on militant outfits, and demanded religious seminaries to avoid sectarian killings in Karachi.
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dont jump into conclusion there is no revenge attack in karachi for syria genocide, it might be family dispute or something related
With all it's faults and failings, it is acknowledged by political adversaries and analysts that sectarian harmony and a sense of peaceful co-existence was achieved by MQM under the visionary leadership of Altaf Hussain. In Karachi a complete closure was achieved to sectarian strife. Karachi denounces sectarian violence and will not allow any more of this. we in Karachi believe in humanity placed first hence equity. Minority killings are highly condemnable as any other form of such barbarism, perhaps more. Strangely, no other party or party head had been able to voice condemnation of the recent cowardly acts of violence
Take our money not outr lives. Political, friends and foes, civil society, media, judiciary, army please let Karachi be governed by Karachiites, The metropolitan can only be managed by a directly elected mayor who has policing under him. We can pay higher taxes if that is the price of getting a city mayor. Condolences with the bereaved families.
Title should say SHIA lawyer. every frekin day there are 4 to 6 shias are getting target killed. don't make it to the news unless they are lawyers or doctors. waziristan operation won't stop the shia killings until these fanatic madrasses are targeted. that's where they are brainwashing people to kill the shias. same happening in other countries too.
Same group of target killers kills Shia and Siunni people alike. They are paid for this act, and the motive is to incite Shia and Sunni sectarian divide and a civil war as being done in Iraq, Syria. People of Karachi and Pakistan clearly knows the plot and the conspiracy. They will not fall victim to this divide and conspiracy.
I feel Sindh Government is strongly supporting SSP. If we see the killings in Karachi and not a single action against any terrorist, what is the meaning of this.
RIP Kazmi Saheb
Unfortunately Shia professionals are martyred on a regular basis to ignite sectarian violence in the city. But Karachi will not let this happen and defeat all such malicious intentions
@ali god forbid a day ever comes when someone from Ur family is targeted like tht...and all u have to hear from other ppl is how 'they were the worse'. Godspeed my friend.
MQM and PPP = Good Governance.
Another shia professional fell prey of un-abated terrorism
"The deceased were identified as Faisal Mehmood, 35, Danish Mehmood, 22, and Fatima Kaneez, 52.PHOTO: STOCK IMAGES " - photo caption.
A Copy Paste mistake?
lawyers and police in karachi are the worst