KARACHI: Two MQM workers shot dead

Published February 19, 2006

KARACHI, Feb 18: Two activists of the Muttahida Quami Movement were shot dead by unknown assailants in Pak Colony on Saturday evening. Quoting area people, police said that two men in a jeep were intercepted by unknown motorcyclists who opened fire on the jeep’s occupants. As a result, both the occupants died on the spot, and the culprits sped away.

The victims’ bodies were taken to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital, where they were identified as Kamaluddin Ansari alias Para, and Amir Munir. Both the victims were in their early forties.

As the news of the killings spread, a large number of workers and sympathizers of the Muttahida gathered at the hospital.

KILLED: A transporter was gunned down in Orangi Town on Saturday.

Police said Wasim Akhtar, 30, resident of Ali Nagar in Orangi Town, was intercepted in Sector 10, near Arshi mosque by unknown assailants, who shot him and fled. Wasim suffered fatal wounds and died.

The body was shifted to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital for autopsy. The victim was in transport business and some of his family members had been killed during the riots back in the late 1980s.

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