KARACHI: 25 vehicles hijacked Muttahida man shot dead
By Our Staff Reporter
KARACHI, April 9: An activist of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement was shot dead in North Nazimabad on Tuesday.
Police said two unidentified assailants, riding on a motorcycle, fired on Isfahan Haider, aged 37, near Zehra Centre in North Nazimabad. He was sitting in his shop at Hyderi Market when he was fired upon. Her was hit by a single bullet in the chest, and rushed to Abbasi Shaheed Hospital where doctors pronounced him dead on arrival.
Isfahan Haider was a former member of the party’s sector committee. His funeral prayers were offered at Masjid-o-Imambargah Babul at eleven in the night.
A large number of people gathered outside the emergency ward at Abbasi Shaheed Hospital.
Police said the dead man was resident of Ali Daulat Square in Block-G in North Nazimabad. He got married two months back.
After the killing tension griped the area and shopkeepers pulled their shutters down.
A young man was shot dead in SITE in the early hours of Tuesday morning.
Police said the body of Salikzada, aged 18, had been found on the Mastan Chali Hill in SITE.
An area resident informed police about the body. Police sent the body to Abbasi Shaheed Hospital for post-mortem.
Police said the dead man was resident of Shershah and worked as a labourer in a steel factory in SITE.
Police described personal enmity as a possible motive for the killing.
CARJACKING: Twenty-five vehicles — 11 cars and 14 motorcycles — were either hijacked or stolen in the city on Tuesday, police said.
Five cars were hijacked. Six others were stolen.
Four motorcycles were hijacked. Ten others were stolen.
Police also claimed on Tuesday to have recovered eight vehicles (PL-3204, ABF-205, CJ
