December 19, 2008	Friday	Zilhaj 20, 1429

KARACHI, Dec 18: A local office-bearer of the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) was gunned down on Thursday in North Karachi, police and witnesses said.

They said that Mohammed Aamir Khan, son of Mohammed Akram, was the vice-president of PPP’s ward in Yousuf Goth, and he was returning to his house in Sector 5-D when an attacker opened fire on him. He died instantly.

The body was shifted to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital for a postmortem examination. Sources at the hospital’s medico-legal section told Dawn that the victim had received two bullets in his lower abdomen.

The police said that the 34-year-old victim and his friend, Adnan, were walking back to their houses after attending the funeral of a party activist in Yousuf Goth when at around 4.15pm a lone attacker opened fire on them at Allahwali Road near Baldia School and ran away.

They said that Adnan told the police that he had run away after the attacker opened fire.

It may be recalled that a PPP activist was killed allegedly by a policeman after he was on the run after killing a worker of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement in Surjani Town two days ago.

The police said that the victim was a worker at a cement factory and had two wives.

No case was registered till late, police said.

Woman stabbed to death

A 50 year-old widow was found slaughtered in her house in Afghan Basti near Gulshan-i-Maymar.

The police said that Pashtoon Bibi was alone in the house as her two young sons had gone to their workplaces.

The body was shifted to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital for a postmortem examination. Sources at the hospital’s medico-legal section said that the victim’s throat was slit.

They said that the incident seemed to be motivated by a personal feud.

The police registered a case against unknown culprits on the complaint of the victim’s son.

Meanwhile, as many as 20 vehicles – eight cars and 12 motorcycles – and 36 cellular phones were taken away by Thursday evening in different parts of the city.