KARACHI: Police on Sunday launched a probe into the killing of a local woman leader of the ruling Pakistan Peoples Party and registered a case against unknown persons.

The local PPP leader, Fatima alias Waderi, 48, was shot dead in an attack on his party office in Khamiso Goth on late Saturday night.

The police said she was sitting in the office located in Sector 5-F when four assailants riding two motorbikes fired at her. She suffered multiple bullet wounds and was taken to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital where doctors pronounced her dead.

The police said the bike riders used a sub-machine gun (SMG) in the attack.

They said the victim along with her husband, Musafir, came to the party office after Isha prayers as per her daily routine. She was a former president of PPP’s women wing for PS-124.

The police registered a murder case on the complaint of her husband.

“We are focusing on targeted killing and personal enmity aspects,” said area SHO Ghulam Yaseen.

When pressed, the officer said that there were indications of personal issues behind the murder than political ones.

He said the investigators got some clues and they were working to unearth the possible identity and motive of the killers.

Published in Dawn, August 9th, 2021