KARACHI: A Muttahida Qaumi Movement worker was found strangled to death in the Mochko area on Tuesday, the police and party officials said.

They added that the body of 41-year-old Sikander Ali, who was identified through his computerised national identity card found in his pocket, was found near the Sorti graveyard. The body was stuffed in a gunny bag with hands and feet tied.

There were strangulation marks on his neck, said Mochko SHO Chaudhry Saleem.

However, he added that doctors at the Civil Hospital Karachi reserved the post-mortem examination report.

The officer said the victim was shown in his CNIC as a resident of Mohammed Ali Society and added that the family did not tell the police about his affiliation with any political party.

The police said the victim’s brother Assistant Sub-Inspector of police Ali Murtaza had been killed in a targeted attack in Orangi Town in 2012.

An MQM spokesperson said the murder of Syed Qasid Ali, aka Sikander Ali, was an extrajudicial execution. He said that the victim was their party worker.

The spokesperson claimed that he had been taken away by policemen in plain clothes from Karachi airport on Monday and later on murdered.

The deceased was a worker of the unit 131 of the Aligarh sector of the party’s organisational structure, he added.

Published in Dawn, December 31st, 2014