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| October 23, 2001 | Tuesday | Shaba'an 5, 1422 |
Pakistani taxi driver murdered in London
LONDON, Oct 22: A Pakistani taxi diver was murdered in the Bradford suburb of Little Horton Road. The victim, 34 year old Mohammad Basharat, a father of four children hailed from Jarlan of Mirpur in Azad Kashmir.
The assailant believed to be an Afro-Caribbean man entered the taxi office on Sunday evening wearing a mask and shot Basharat in the head in front of his colleagues and managed to escape before being apprehended.
According to eye-witnesses, Basharat succumbed to his wounds before the police and ambulance arrived at the spot.
According to Basharat’s friends, the murder could have been the result of a row over parking the car between Basharat and another man in the city centre a day earlier. The man had threatened to kill Basharat.
The attack is not considered to be racially motivated. Only six weeks ago another Pakistani, Yasir Hussain, was shot and killed in Bradford while on duty at a petrol pump.Two men have been arrested on murder charge of Yasir Hussain.
In Bradford which is known as little Pakistan and in the Glasgow area of Scotland a number of racially motivated attacks on Pakistani and Asian community recently has caused a lot of fear in the area.
In the Motherwell area of Glasgow two petrol bombs were thrown in a mosque in the middle of the night at the weekend which damaged the prayer hall and the kitchen but the culprits were arrested by the police before they could escape in a getaway car.
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