KARACHI: An activist of the Ahle Sunnat Wal-Jamaat (ASWJ) was shot dead on Monday evening in Orangi Town in a suspected sectarian attack, according to Pirabad police and party officials.

They said Safiullah, 30, was standing near his home after offering prayers in a mosque in Kunwari Colony when gunmen on a motorcycle attacked him and fled.

He sustained critical bullet wounds and was taken to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital, where doctors pronounced him dead.

“The police were inquiring into the motive for the murder,” said Karachi-West SSP Irfan Baloch.

However, an ASWJ spokesperson said the deceased was an office-bearer of their party in M.P.R. Colony and it was an act of targeted killing. The victim was also a religious teacher in Al-Badr Madressah in the same area.

Published in Dawn, November 18th, 2014

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