SGH superintendent another Shia killing, police suspect
Police suspect the culprits killed their victim after calling Rajjar at the murder site.
"The place where Rajjar was killed was not part of his routine route, which means he was probably called there,” says DSP Lodhi PHOTO: FILE
KARACHI:
Police investigators believed that Professor Dr Hassan Alam, the additional medical superintendent of Sindh Government Hospital, was shot dead over sectarian basis.
Dr Alam was shot dead as he was travelling towards his home from the out patient department (OPD) at a private clinic in North Karachi on Tuesday night. New Karachi division SP Salman Hussain while talking to The Express Tribune said that the initial investigation suggests that the deceased was killed over sectarian basis because he belonged to the Shia community and did not have any personal enmity, adding that the incident neither took place over offering a robbing bid.
Pakistan Medical Association (PMA) Sindh president Dr Samrina Hashmi told The Express Tribune that Dr Alam was the additional medical superintendent of Sindh Government Hospital, New Karachi. Before his murder on Tuesday, he was filling in for MS Dr Mukhtar Khawaja who is on ten days leave.
Dr Alam's funeral prayers were offered at the imambargah in Ancholi before being laid to rest at the Wadi-e-Hussain graveyard on Super Highway.
Police officials said that they have yet to register a case in the matter as Dr Alam’s family told police that they would register a case after funeral had been completed.
Police probes Rajjar’s murder
Investigators probed into the target killing of Arif Rajjar who was killed on Tuesday night in Gulshan-e-Iqbal area.
Police suspect the culprits killed their victim after calling Rajjar at the murder site. Rajjar and his companions were the prime suspects of a firing incident at a party in Khayaban-e-Rahat in 2011 that claimed at least six lives including that of Talay Bugti, the grandson of Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti. Rajjar was currently out on bail.
The victim’s father-in-law, Syed Mehmoodul Hassan while talking to The Express Tribune said that the family too was trying to ascertain the motive behind the killing, adding that Rajjar had not received any kind of threats from the Bugti tribe nor from the property business that he used to run.
Meanwhile, police investigators say they are trying to get Rajjar’s cell phone records that could offer more clues to take investigations forward. "The place where Rajjar was killed was not part of his routine route, which means he was probably called there,” DSP Nasir Lodhi told The Express Tribune.
"Per our initial findings it appears that the victim and the murderers knew each other.”
Lodhi said that the murder could be related to the victim’s business but police were not ruling out the Bugti tribe factor matter and other personal and family enmities at this point of the investigation.
Rajjar's brother-in-law, Syed Zainul Hassan, was also shot dead around eight months ago in Sher Shah area of Karachi. Police though had arrested Hassan’s murderers and determined that he had been killed over a personal matter
Police investigators believed that Professor Dr Hassan Alam, the additional medical superintendent of Sindh Government Hospital, was shot dead over sectarian basis.
Dr Alam was shot dead as he was travelling towards his home from the out patient department (OPD) at a private clinic in North Karachi on Tuesday night. New Karachi division SP Salman Hussain while talking to The Express Tribune said that the initial investigation suggests that the deceased was killed over sectarian basis because he belonged to the Shia community and did not have any personal enmity, adding that the incident neither took place over offering a robbing bid.
Pakistan Medical Association (PMA) Sindh president Dr Samrina Hashmi told The Express Tribune that Dr Alam was the additional medical superintendent of Sindh Government Hospital, New Karachi. Before his murder on Tuesday, he was filling in for MS Dr Mukhtar Khawaja who is on ten days leave.
Dr Alam's funeral prayers were offered at the imambargah in Ancholi before being laid to rest at the Wadi-e-Hussain graveyard on Super Highway.
Police officials said that they have yet to register a case in the matter as Dr Alam’s family told police that they would register a case after funeral had been completed.
Police probes Rajjar’s murder
Investigators probed into the target killing of Arif Rajjar who was killed on Tuesday night in Gulshan-e-Iqbal area.
Police suspect the culprits killed their victim after calling Rajjar at the murder site. Rajjar and his companions were the prime suspects of a firing incident at a party in Khayaban-e-Rahat in 2011 that claimed at least six lives including that of Talay Bugti, the grandson of Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti. Rajjar was currently out on bail.
The victim’s father-in-law, Syed Mehmoodul Hassan while talking to The Express Tribune said that the family too was trying to ascertain the motive behind the killing, adding that Rajjar had not received any kind of threats from the Bugti tribe nor from the property business that he used to run.
Meanwhile, police investigators say they are trying to get Rajjar’s cell phone records that could offer more clues to take investigations forward. "The place where Rajjar was killed was not part of his routine route, which means he was probably called there,” DSP Nasir Lodhi told The Express Tribune.
"Per our initial findings it appears that the victim and the murderers knew each other.”
Lodhi said that the murder could be related to the victim’s business but police were not ruling out the Bugti tribe factor matter and other personal and family enmities at this point of the investigation.
Rajjar's brother-in-law, Syed Zainul Hassan, was also shot dead around eight months ago in Sher Shah area of Karachi. Police though had arrested Hassan’s murderers and determined that he had been killed over a personal matter