Five Ahle Sunnat wal Jamaat (ASWJ) activists were among eight people gunned down on Monday.
In a targeted attack near Abul Hassan Ispahani Road in Mobina Town police limits, four ASWJ workers were shot dead by unidentified assailants.
The armed attackers came on at least seven motorcycles and fired a volley of bullets at the victims, who were sitting at a perfume shop near the Siddiq-e-Akbar mosque. The attackers used 9mm pistols with silencers, police said.
Omar Haq Nawaz, 30, Qari Abdul Shakoor, 28, Imran Gul Karam Khan, 22, son and his elder brother, Asadullah, 28, were killed on the spot. Their bodies were shifted to Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre.
District West DIG Shahid Hayat confirmed the victims were associated with the religious outfit and may have been killed over sectarian differences.
“The targeted killing of our party men is a conspiracy to destabilise the country,” alleged ASWJ spokesman Maulana Taj Muhammad Hanafi.
Another ASWJ activist had earlier in the day been shot dead in Gulberg.
Two armed men on a motorcycle killed Abdul Hannan, 28, while he was sitting at his refrigerator repair shop.
In New Karachi, a Sunni Tehreek activist, Usman Qadri alias Lara, 26, was shot dead at the party office by two armed motorcyclists, Bilal Colony police said.
In Gulshan-e-Ghazi, a 45-year-old police constable was targeted.
An activist of Mohajir Qaumi Movement-Haqiqi was killed while two others were wounded in a targeted attack within Landhi police remits.
Published in The Express Tribune, October 16th, 2012.
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its funny a shia friend of mine once told me that when a sunni dies in a sectarian attack it makes me feel more unsecure than when a shia dies because of the reaction that will follow it
I never imagined myself saying this but the hatred this sipah e sahaba has spread, i feel a bit less sympathy for them somehow. And i m sure it doesnt make me less human..
Tango down !
Not sure who killed them but they all belonged to ASWJ which is another name for sipah sahaba. the aim of this party is to just preach hatred towards shias and have killed thousands of shias. I get fed up of just reading about the shia killings in Pakistan so I can't image what the family and relatives of the victims must feel like.
Hopefully government and security agencies will finally wake up and take action against the people who preach violence.
Curse upon those who did this.....................!
Sectarian conflict has gotten out of hand.These five were killed by the rival sect.Now there will be reaction and the violent cycle will continue.We need to tolerate each other's beliefs otherwise this sectarian conflict will continue.