KARACHI: A gunfight between a police constable and a Rangers man resulted in the death of the former in the SITE area on Friday, police said.

South DIG Syed Asad Raza said Constable Waseem Ahmed Abro was killed and Rangers sepoy Mohammed Noman suffered a bullet wounds in the thigh.

He said that the Rangers man had claimed that he shot the constable as he attempted to rob him. However, investigations revealed that the incident was a result of a personal dispute between the two.

DIG Raza added that a preliminary probe suggested “a personal motive involving a girl” as the likely cause of the conflict between the two.

Providing details, he said the men were in civvies and they arrived at the scene near Habib Bank Chowk in SITE at around 10:45am on their motorbikes.

Quoting eyewitnesses, he said an argument escalated into a physical scuffle between the two men, who quickly took out their pistols and fired at each other. As a result, the constable sustained two bullet wounds and died on the spot. The Rangers personnel was hit in the thigh, he said.

The police arrived there and shifted the constable’s body to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital while the Rangers personnel himself reached at Rangers Hospital in North Nazimabad for treatment.

He was reportedly in stable condition and in Rangers custody.

A case would be registered on the complaint of the slain constable’s father, a sub-inspector at the Landhi police station, the DIG added.

The police recovered two 9mm pistols and as many motorcycles, both without number plates, from the scene.

Published in Dawn, July 12th, 2025