Two people, including an activist of the Punjabi-Pakhtoon Organising Committee (PPOC), were gunned down in separate acts of target killing on Tuesday.
Noor Hussain, 27, was shot in Kunwari Colony, within Pirabad police limits, as he was standing with a friend on Manghopir Road. Police officials said that two men on a motorcycle shot Hussain in the head and then escaped. The victim died on the spot. His body was taken to Abbasi Shaheed Hospital.
SHO Yasin Gujjar said that the deceased was an activist of the PPOC, which is affiliated with the Muttahida Qaumi Movement, and he lived in Orangi Town’s Iqbal Nagar. Tension gripped the locality and commercial activities were suspended following the incident. Gujjar said that the police were waiting for the victim’s family to register a case.
In an unrelated incident, Ali Raza, 32, son of Saleem Khan, was killed inside a hair salon in Qasba Colony, under Pirabad police limits. Police officials said that culprits on a motorcycle shot the victim twice, who died on the spot. Raza was the father of four children and used to run a cattle farm. Police registered an FIR against unidentified men.
Published in The Express Tribune, February 29th, 2012.
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