A mourner, along with investigators, inspects a car after an attack by unknown gunmen on Mufti Muneer Ahmed in Islamabad on January 3. PHOTO: AFP
ISLAMABAD: Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat's (ASWJ) Islamabad General Secretary Mufti Muneer Ahmed was shot dead by two unidentified individuals on Friday afternoon Express News reported.
It was reported that Mufti Muneer Ahmed and Asad Mehmood, an ASWJ office bearer, were targeted after Friday prayers in the I-8 sector of Islamabad.
The armed men on motorcycles approached the two after they left congregational prayers on Friday afternoon.
Witnesses to the scene said that the two gunmen sped off towards Faizabad, Rawalpindi after carrying out the attack.
The bodies of the two ASWJ men remained on the road as members of the ASWJ protested following the killing. The ASWJ Twitter account suggested the attack was sectarian in nature.
A party official confirmed its activists were targeted.
"Our leaders were killed in a targeted attempt on their life."
Unending attacks
Many members of ASWJ were the victims of target killings in 2013.
Three members of a family, associated with the Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat (ASWJ), were gunned down in Karachi in December, 2013.
In the same month, Maulana Shamsur Rehman Muawiya, the chief of ASWJ’s Punjab chapter, was killed after unidentified gunmen opened fire on his car along Ravi Road. The ASWJ leader was returning home after leading Friday prayers at the Muhammadi Mosque in the Ravi Road locality.
ASWJ has in the past demanded that increased security should be provided to them following frequent attacks on the organisation’s leaders.
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