Traffic police official shot dead in Malir

E-Paper | May 03, 2026

KARACHI: A traffic police official was shot dead in an armed attack in the Malir area of the metropolis on Wednesday evening, a police official said.

“Zulfiqar, an assistant sub-inspector (ASI), was gunned down by unknown assailants near Malir Kala Board,” said the police official.

The police official further added that the victim suffered a single gunshot wound to the head.

Karachi-East DIG, Munir Ahmed Shaikh told Dawn that the police has started their investigation and are probing for the motive behind the recent attacks on traffic police officials.

Earlier in September, a traffic police constable was shot dead while two others sustained bullet wounds in an armed attack in Site-B area of the metropolis.

In August, two policemen helping traffic police in the busy Saddar area were gunned down by armed riders when they were asked to stop.

Police officials suspect that three militant groups have become ‘active’ in targeting policemen after a lull in such activities.

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Imtiaz Ali is a Karachi-based reporter for Dawn with over 25 years of experience in the field. His reporting portfolio encompasses crime, politics, and the provincial legislature, alongside coverage of the courts, government affairs, and the health sector.

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Alien

Sep 30, 2015 10:23pm

PPP failure again.......law and order .....????

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Jalbani Baloch

Sep 30, 2015 11:42pm

The security agencies must track down the killers, who are choosing the soft targets by killing Traffic Constables, who have nothing to do with the maintenance of law and order in the city, except regulating the smooth flow of traffic on the roads in Karachi. The white dress of traffic constables, itself is testimony of their peacefulness, and their killing is a terrible act of terrorists, which needs to be stopped immediately, so that the traffic constables can perform their duties with any terror or fear.

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Savant Abro

Oct 01, 2015 12:20am

It is the saddest moment of Police official family,who died armed attack,Agencies ought to detect via sharp-witted way and Sindh government ought to compensate police official and give the job his son,inasmuch his family martyr constable does not starve.Malik Riyaz had offered compensate.

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K.Shah

Oct 01, 2015 12:53am

These killers pick their target & choose their time and always get away with ease. Does not this spell the failure of intelligence?

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Sleepless in Sahiwal

Oct 01, 2015 01:57am

@Alien If law and order improves - all credit to rangers.. If something happens PPP is to be blamed

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Malik USA

Oct 01, 2015 02:45am

Very sad, just think about his poor family. God knows when this killing will stop in our country. And now really I think they are not muslim or there is no religion of this target killer. They need money only and they can kill anyone.

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