Mqm Activist: Gunmen target doctor

KARACHI: Dr Abid Hussain, 35, was critically injured when gunmen opened fire on him at his Jawad clinic in Surjani town’s Sector 36/E area on Thursday evening. According to a spokesperson at Nine Zero, the doctor was a Muttahida Qaumi Movement activist and was a central member of the Muttahida Organising Committee. According to Edhi sources, Abid was shifted to Abbasi Shaheed Hospital where doctors were struggling to save his life. The Surjani duty officer said that no one had come forward yet to lodge a FIR. Sources said that a woman identified as Nasreen, was also injured and was taken to Jinnah hospital, the duty officer denied that any woman was shot.

Published in The Express Tribune, July 22^nd, 2011.