Target killing: Sunni Tehreek worker, wife ‘slaughtered’

KARACHI: A gang of men broke into 30-year-old Farhan Naeem’s house in Saeedabad and physically assaulted him and his wife, 28-year-old Yasmin. They killed the couple after torturing them.

The police took the bodies to Civil Hospital, Karachi.

They said that the victim, Farhan, was a Sunni Tehreek activist.

As the news of the murder spread, tension followed. Unidentified armed men forced people to shut down their shops and businesses. A heavy contingent of police was deployed in the area.

Saeedabad SHO Abdul Maeed said the motive behind the murder was personal enmity.

The police registered a case on behalf of the victim’s friend, Muhammad Sarwar Qadri, in which he accused three members of a political party. The accused were identified as Aziz alias CIA, Akhtar alias Baba and Anees.

Published in The Express Tribune, April 18^th,  2011.