KARACHI: A businessman was shot dead in what was believed to be a ‘targeted attack’ on Kashmir Road on Thursday evening, according to police.

Jamshed Quarters SHO Khalid Rafiq said that Amir Haroon Ismail, 42, was traveling in a car when armed men riding a motorcycle attacked him near Kashmir Complex.

The SHO said the victim was a businessman and it seemed that it was a targeted attack on him.

The police officer recalled that Amir had earlier survived an attempt on his life in 2021. He had suffered four/five bullet wounds in that attack. In reply to a question, the SHO opined that the attack might be motivated by business rivalry.

Out of control bus hits over a dozen vehicles near Jauhar Morr A bus belonging to a textile mill went out of its driver’s control and rammed into over a dozen parked vehicles near Jauhar Morr in Gulistan-i-Jauhar on Thursday morning.

No one was injured in the accident.

Sharea Faisal SHO Malik Murtaza said that the bus went out of its driver’s control apparently due to over-speeding. It hit and damaged 12 cars and a motorcycle parked outside a residential apartment block, he said.

The accident, he added, caused traffic jam on the busy Rashid Minhas Road for some time. The officer said that the driver was taken into custody. He quoted the driver as claiming that he lost control of the bus as its breaks failed.

The SHO said that a case was registered against the the errant driver for alleged negligence.

Published in Dawn, March 3rd, 2023