MQM MNA Tahira Asif. PHOTO: FILE
LAHORE: Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) MNA Tahira Asif was injured in an incident of firing by unidentified gunmen in Lahore, Express News reported.
It is not yet clear whether it was a robbery or an attempted target killing incident.
MQM chief Altaf Hussain while condemning the attack on MNA Tahira Asif demanded the arrest of the attackers.
Hussain said that the MNA had received threats for speaking out against terrorists in the assembly and had asked for security. However, he added, the Punjab government failed to provide her with more security.
Further adding that she was shot in her stomach and waist, Hussain said that the men on motorcycle opened her car door and asked her name before killing her.
According to senior MQM leader Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui, Asif was attacked in an attempted target killing. Police, however, have said that it was a robbery.
Siddiqui said that MQM workers are arriving at the hospital.
Express News reported that Asif and her son were followed by two motorcycles and was fired at. According to sources, her surgery has been completed and she is now out of danger.
The MNA was reportedly supposed to travel to the capital today.
President Mamnoon Hussain strongly condemned the attack and prayed for Asif's recovery, Radio Pakistan reported.
Information Minister Pervaiz Rasheed has also condemned the attack.
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I wonder she must have done something to earn the ire of Altaf Bhai. I think the nation is fed up of these sharifs, zaradris or altafs. They are eating us inside out. Please wake up. rise above the prejudices of provinces, sects or language. choose honest leadership. If we can't..... then we must admit that democracy is not for us. Long live Pakistan
R.I.P,
May she recover fast to live happily ever after and may all those targetted by any party come back to life by some miracle.
@Ali: Twisted logic with strange assumptions. MQM is a reality, you accept it or dont.
Sharif brothers have learning nothing from exile.
I'm not sure why PMLN would do this while they have been supporting Bhai during his custody. I'm pretty sure PMLN will help Bhai to get away from London to save MQM. Let's be realistic MQM doesn't exist without Bhai and if there is no MQM who else would be in Karachi? PTI or JUI and PMLN will never let that happened. PMLN can mould MQM but not PTI or JUI.
Allah May give health and recovery to his lady as at the end of the day she is a human and killing a human is worse than everything according to God fearing people.
For PMLN they will not hesitate to kill whoever would be a threat to their empire either on individual or party basis.
@Nida Alvi
condemn such an insensitive comment, we are first humans, politicians later
"Further adding that she was shot in her stomach and waist, Hussain said that the men on motorcycle opened her car door and asked her name before killing her."
Where does it say she is dead?
If she might be dead, it means an extortionist dead.
@Nida Alvi: Comments like yours divide nations. Height of ignorance, hatred and prejudice.
MQM is being chased by anti-state elements. And lets acknowledge it - such elements are sent by Lahore! Pity on those who think that Lahore economic progress can be done by sucking Karachi dry. May they be guided to right path and Pakistan develops as a nation.
@Nida Alvi: This utterly shamefull and inhumane, how did ET even post such crap comment. May allah guide you.
May allah grant Tahira Asif Baji complete recovery.
Disgusting to see that even women are not spared !
@Gullam Khattak:
Worry not bro, Altaf Bhai has not been released with a pardon at all. On the contrary, he ought to thank his lucky stars and PML-N for the short liberty he has got until July. Then there is the question of those two hitmen who are currently under government's custody and will be handed over to Scotland Yard in no time.
@Jibran: Your sick comment proves that the boots you lick are now waiting article6 :)
Ladies and gentlemen: I am a businessman and was running business in Karachi I have been forced to close my business in Karachi due to Bhatta and kidnapping. From the last 3 years i have been doing business in Lahore, and earning more what i was getting in Karachi. Thanks to Sharif Brothers no Political party workers comes to us businessman and ask for Bhatta. I am not following any political party. At least use your brain what a person is doing rather then following Him/Her. Mr. Qadri should have surrender his Canadian passport and come to Pakistan and live among a common man like a great leader. Not like a tourist.
Thanks god she is safe....We can't afford to shutdown Karachi for another three days !
@Nida Alvi: Your statement shows how prejudiced you are.
Why can't MQM digest dissent in its ranks? First it was Afaq, then Dr. Imran Farooq and now this lady. Remains to be seen what this lady do earn the legendary MQM ire.
May Allah give the lady health. Its really sad whats happening in Lahore over last couple of days. Also reports of one person killed by police torture in Faisalabad.
it seems punjab police is too busy shooting innocent public in lahore instead of arresting the likes of gullu butt and maintaining law and order
its surely done by gullu and his friends on the orders of saad
@Nida Alvi: Nauseating boot licking of the Sharif Family by this individual!
I am sure that its been done on the order of Leader of Tehreek-e-Zalim-e-Punjab (Shahbaz Shareef ). Royal family of punjab are so worried about their democracy and after the incidents coming from last 3 days, they are so confused that they will use every power they have to safe their government with the help of army which is already guarding the Royal family of Punjab at different cities.People of Pakistan should know now that there are no human rights here for poor and middle class people.
This is called good governance by Qatil e Aala. Governor, MNAs, MPAs, ISI officials kidnapped, robbed, and killed, women and children raped and murdered, police shooting indiscriminately at women, men and children, and teachers, and doctors tortured, terrorists patronized.
She's an MPA or MNA? atleast report basic facts rightly...........
PMLN is unleashing its reign of terror on the opponents through its militant wings.
@Faisal Sabzwaari: To me it seems people in London are nomore buying the Punjabi propaganda, otherwise Altaf hussain would not have been released with pardon (u better know pardon for u have Nawaz)
@Nida Alvi: People like u has made me believe that no shame is left in this world. can''t imagine what kind of people like u r who can even cherish the miseries and even deaths of their opponents... now i realy find some rational in what MQM do with people like you.
Seems like a plot to divert attention from London and Karachi. Jiye MQM
Who can believe the police? They are goons.
Wherever the MQM goes, it's target killers always follow... If London could not be spared, how could any city in Pakistan be spared??