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KARACHI, Aug 9: A police constable was shot dead along with his friend in Lyari late Wednesday night in what police described as an act of a targeted killing. Waseem Sattar, posted in the Crime Investigation Department (CID), was passing through the Cheel Chowk locality of Kalakot area with his friend, Sajid, when assailants riding a motorcycle sprayed them with bullets. The victims were taken to the Civil Hospital where they were pronounced dead on arrival.
SP Lyari Fayyaz Khan, when contacted, did not agree with some of his colleagues who suggested that the incident seemed to be connected with the Lyari gang war. He was of the view that it was rather a targeted killing.
Mr Khan said that constable Sattar, a resident of Nawa Lane who was posted in the CID Civil Lines, seemed to have been killed for assisting police in busting criminal gangs.
A 28-year-old man, Abdul Ghani, was killed while he was about to step into his first floor apartment in DHA late on Wednesday night.
Police said that the man, after fetching bread from a nearby shop, was returning home when someone shot him dead at the doorstep of his apartment in Badar Commercial.
SP Clifton Azad Khan quoting initial investigation reports said that Ghani had married a woman older than him and also had an old love affair. His wife suspected his fidelity, police said. He, however, did not rule out some family dispute or enmity being the motive.
