Ahmadi man's lynching: police register murder FIR
The Preedy Police has registered a murder case against 15 identified individuals and several unknown suspects after a member of the Ahmadiyya community was lynched by a mob outside the Ahmadiyya Hall in Karachi's Saddar area on Friday afternoon.
According to Preedy Police Station SHO Shabbir Hussain, the case (FIR No 253/2025) has been lodged under Sections 302, 147, 148, 149 of the Pakistan Penal Code, along with Section 7 of the Anti-Terrorism Act (ATA).
The complainant, Abdul Naeem, a resident of district Shaheed Benazirabad, told police he had come to Karachi on April 18 to visit relatives at his cousin Laiq Ahmed's residence on Tariq Road.
Around 1:30pm, he received a phone call informing him that his 47-year-old cousin, Laiq Ahmedson of Nazir Ahmedhad been attacked by a crowd near the Hashoo Centre, close to Mazda Hotel in Saddar, and had been taken to Civil Hospital.
Naeem said he rushed to the hospital with his family members, where doctors confirmed Laiq had succumbed to his injuries. Later, when he visited the site of the incident near the Ahmadiyya Hall, he learned that a large group had surrounded and violently assaulted Laiq around 1:15pm, leaving him with severe head and facial injuries.