KARACHI: Another Pakistan Peoples Party worker was gunned down in Lyari, police and party officials said on Friday.

They said that armed motorcyclists targeted Abdul Hameed, 33, when he was sitting outside his home in Jhatpat Market late on Thursday night.

He was taken to the Civil Hospital Karachi where he died during treatment.

SSP-City Sheeraz Nazeer said that the deceased had a criminal record and he might have been killed by gangsters.

However, a spokesperson for the city chapter of the PPP, Latif Mughal, claimed that deceased Hameed was an ‘active’ worker of the party in Lyari.

He was the sixth party worker killed in Lyari within a week, he added.

“Gangsters have started targeting PPP workers in Lyari after the party’s rally in Karachi on Oct 18,” said Mr Mughal. Five PPP workers, including two former councillors, were earlier shot dead in Lyari.

PPP leader Waqar Mehdi told Dawn that Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah had taken serious notice of the PPP men’s killings.He said that since 2008 over 550 party workers had been killed mostly on political grounds.

However, he claimed that some of the alleged killers had been arrested.

Published in Dawn, November 8th, 2014