The incident occurred when armed men attacked Dr Ghulam Sarwar Dahri’s clinic, located in Cattle Colony. PHOTO: FILE
The police have ruled out the possibility of any political motivation behind the targeted attack at a clinic in Shah Latif Town, which claimed at least four lives and wounded four others on Saturday night.
The incident occurred when armed men attacked Dr Ghulam Sarwar Dahri’s clinic, located in Cattle Colony. As a result of the attack, Dr Sarwar’s son, Ghulam Murtaza, 30, his nephew, Saleem Dahri, the clinic’s dispenser, Khadim Hussain Lashari and a patient, Shahzad Ayub, 29, were killed while four patients, Kiran Yousuf, 20, Afshan Sajjad, 28, Abdul Hakeem, 28 and Haq Nawaz, 30, were wounded. Meanwhile, Dr Sarwar, managed to escape unhurt. Dr Sarwar is a member of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement’s Bin Qasim Town Sector’s sub-wing, the Muttahida Organising Committee. Police, in their initial investigations, have ruled out the possibility of political grounds being the motive behind the attack and suggested that the incident might have been occurred over personal enmity. They are, however, waiting for Dr Sarwar to register a case before they launch an official investigation.
“Dr Sarwar’s family has asked us for time as they are busy in the burial process,” SHO Ali Hassan Shaikh told The Express Tribune.
Meanwhile, all commercial activities were suspended in the area as the shopkeepers kept their shops closed in the morning to express solidarity with the victims’ families. The combined funeral prayers of Dr Sarwar’s son, nephew and the dispenser were offered near their homes and they were buried at Chowkandi graveyard.
Published in The Express Tribune, September 2nd, 2013.
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