Mushtaq Ahmed in an undated image. PHOTO: SYED ALI RAZA ABIDI'S TWITTER ACCOUNT / @abidifactor
The 40-year-old was targeted by armed motorcyclists when he stopped at a shop near his residence. According to his friend Ahmed had gone to buy cigarettes after watching the first innings of the Pakistan-Bangladesh cricket match in the Asia Cup.
Assailants opened fire at him just after Ahmed after he reached the shop.
Ahmed was shot at least three times and died moments later. He received fatal bullet wounds to his head, neck and abdomen.
Ahmed had previously held the position of sector incharge of the party’s Gulberg sector and was a member of the party’s North Nazimabad sector.
Police officials reached the site soon after the incident and started collecting evidence.
“At least four armed men on two motorcycles were behind the attack,” informed Samanabad DSP Azam Khan Durrani while speaking with The Express Tribune. “We have collected the empty shells of the pistols used in the killing.”
The body of the deceased was taken to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital for autopsy where a score of MQM leaders, workers, supporters and the victim’s relatives had gathered.
MQM condemns killing
Condemning the killing, MQM chief Altaf Hussain said that in the struggle against terrorism and extremism, his party's workers were being targeted.
“It seems that a group of target killers have been given the task to kill senior workers of the MQM,” he said while speaking with the Rabita Committee. “What is shocking is how easily the criminals are getting away with their crimes.”
The MQM chief added that over the last 10 days at least 12 party workers had been killed. He demanded that the government and law enforcement agencies act to arrest the perpetrators at the earliest and give them exemplary punishment.
Senior MQM leader Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui stated that as many as five MQM workers had been killed in the past three days and that the authorities had failed to apprehend the culprits.
Mushtaq Ahmed Shaheed was buying paan from a shop in Saman Abad when armed terrorists open fire on him closely and targeted his head & chest
— Mustafa Azizabadi (@azizabadi) March 4, 2014
RIP Mushtaq bhai - Still cant blve wont be seeing you daily at markaz .. :( - #MQM
— Saman Jafriسمن جعفری (@SsamanJay) March 4, 2014
You will be missed Mushtaq Bhai May Allah Bless your soul & RIP Aameen Salute to U from All MQM Workers of Pakistan pic.twitter.com/fQXQMY2YpO
— Wasay Jalil (@WasayJalil) March 4, 2014
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Mushtaq bhai we will miss you may Allah bless his soul in peace. nobody is like you. gr8 man
Let there be an end to these killings, which has not created any good for the citizen or society. Since MQM is a big party of Karachi, it should take lead to shun violence and adopt a policy 'Let All Live in Peace and Harmony in Karachi'. Karachi is a mega cosmopolitan city and people from different races, culture, religions and classes dwell in here. So, all the permanent symbol of city and no one can expel any one. Being a big party, it is expected of MQM to take the lead and make the city as peaceful as it was before eighties.
What goes around, comes around. Sad but a taste of your own activities.
things happen in the business of mafia
state terrorism ......work of intelligence agencies..
Hundreds of people have been killed in Karachi since the start of this year,Mushtaq Ahmed is just one of them.Last year some 1400 were killed.So my question to the constant rulers of karachi the MQM,PPP and ANP,What did you do to stop this madness?
R.I.P.
Mushtaq bhai ap saathio ki shahadat kay facts pata krty thy...aj ap he... :( Allah Subhana Ta'la ap ko jannat ma aala maqaam atta karey..Ameen.