KARACHI: A worker of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan and two others were gunned down in suspected targeted attacks in different parts of the city on Sunday, police said.

They said that Niaz Husain, 45, was gunned down by armed motorcyclists near Aman Chowk in Khairabad within the remit of the Manghopir police station on Sunday evening.

An area police officer, Saeed Wahab, said that the victim was a former office-bearer of the MQM and it appeared to be a targeted killing incident.

He was a resident of Altaf Nagar and was heading somewhere on his motorbike when unidentified assailants targeted him.

The MQM-P condemned the targeted killing of its former member of Orangi Town and demanded arrest of the killers.

In the Ferozabad area, a 22-year-old man was shot dead on Shaheed-i-Millat Road.

The police said that Danish Ahmed Shaikh was targeted by unknown assailants due to “unknown reason”.

Area SHO Inam Hasan Junejo said that the victim was riding a motorbike when the assailants shot him in the head and fled without taking away his valuables.

While the SHO said that the motive could not be ascertained immediately, his relatives suspected that he was targeted by robbers.

The relatives told the media that Danish was returning his PIB Colony home after performing his night duty at a private firm. He was the eldest among four siblings.

They said he was a good person and had no enmity with anyone.

The body was shifted to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre to fulfil medico-legal formalities.

Another person was shot dead in Mianwali Colony within the remit of the Pirabad police station on Sunday.

Area SHO Imran Afridi said that Safdar Hassan, 45, was riding a motorbike when unknown suspects opened indiscriminate firing on him near Jamia Masjid Rabbani at around 4:50am.

He ruled out the possibility of a killing during a robbery, saying the cash and his other valuables were not taken away. He said that the victim was associated with some transport business.

Investigators collected six spent bullet casings from the crime scene, he said, adding that the body was shifted to the ASH for medico-legal formalities.

Published in Dawn, October 23th, 2023