KARACHI: A young man, said to be associated with some ‘sensitive’ government organisation, was shot dead in what police suspected as a targeted attack in Federal B Area on Monday.

They said that the killing took place on Sunday night near Water Pump within the remit of the Jauharabad police station.

The victim was identified as Naqash Tafseer, 33.

Area SHO Badar Shakeel said that he originally hailed from Rawalpindi and had come to Karachi before Eidul Azha to meet his in-laws in Orangi Town.

He said that he left his in-laws’ residence in Orangi’s Sector-11 at around 8:30pm on Sunday to buy groceries. He went to a superstore on Rashid Minhas Road and was returning from there when armed assailants, riding a motorbike, intercepted him near Water Pump, said the SHO.

Quoting witnesses, the officer said that the assailants talked to him for about 10 minutes and then shot him and rode away. He suffered critical bullet wounds in the chest and was shifted to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital where doctors pronounced him dead on arrival.

He suspected some personal enmity as an apparent motive for the murder.

The SHO said that the victim worked with a “sensitive institution”.

Senior police officers remained tight-lipped and chose not to share even initial findings of the murder probe.

Published in Dawn, July 25th, 2023