Civil society activist Khurram Zaki shot dead in Karachi

Zaki along with friend Khalid Rao were sitting at a tea shop in Sector 11-B, North Karachi when gunmen opened fire


Faraz Khan May 07, 2016
Police picked up Khurram Zaki while he was protesting outside Lal Masjid last year. PHOTO: EXPRESS

KARACHI: Unidentified assailants gunned down rights activist Khurram Zaki in Karachi on Saturday night.

Zaki along with friend Khalid Rao were sitting at a tea shop in Sector 11-B, North Karachi when gunmen opened fire.

"Two armed men riding a motorcycle opened indiscriminate fire on them [victims]," said a witness. "The job was done within a few seconds."

The victims were shifted to the Aga Khan Hospital where Zaki passed away whereas Rao was said to be in a critical condition.



Police reached the site and initiated an investigation.

"We recovered as many as 19 empty pistol shells," said Sir Syed police station SHO Muhammad Iftikhar.

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Head of Majlis-e-Wahdatul Muslimeen (MWM) Allama Nasir Abbas, in a statement, condemned the attack.

Zaki was vocal against extremist elements - started a campaign against Maulana Abdul Aziz when the latter refused to condemn the December 2014 Peshawar attack.

An editor for the blog, ‘Let Us Build Pakistan’ and a former television journalist; he had been actively campaigning against sectarian violence as well.



The blog was recently blocked by the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority for viewers in the country.

COMMENTS (15)

Lord | 7 years ago | Reply @muhammad shoaib: If you go through his posts. He never targeted ahl e sunnat specifically. he was against militancy and extremism present in specific school of thought within ahl e sunnat. He never targeted any belief.
jayant | 7 years ago | Reply Pakistan has become the graveyard of the innocents ! RIP the idea of Pakistan !
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