No progress made in Uber driver’s killing case

Motive, number of killers yet to be ascertained

KARACHI: Despite the passage of a day after an Uber driver, identified as 50-year-old Shahnawaz, was shot dead in the city, police officials investigating the murder have yet to ascertain the motive behind the murder.

The police registered the murder case on Sunday on behalf of the victim’s family against unidentified persons.

According to Taimuria SHO Muhammad Fayyaz, the motive behind the incident has yet to be ascertained. Circumstantial evidence, including presence of the victim's mobile phone and wallet inside the car, suggests that the killing was not a result of offering resistance during an attempted mugging, the SHO said, adding that Shahnawaz might have been killed over personal enmity.

The police have also yet to ascertain how many suspects participated in the killing, the officer maintained.



The deceased driver was a resident of New Karachi. His funeral prayers were offered on Sunday and later, he was laid to rest at a local graveyard.

Shahnawaz was found shot dead inside a white Santro on Saturday night in the Buffer Zone area within the limits of the Taimuria police station. A retired employee of the Pakistan International Airlines, he was driving a taxi for Uber. The police recovered three empty shells of a 30 bore pistol from the crime scene. According to the police, all windows of the car were shut except the one on the driving side through which the driver was likely shot. Further investigations are under way.