SUKKUR: Abdul Hafeez Bijarani, the Deputy General Secretary of Jamaat-i-Islami’s Sindh chapter and a member of the party’s central council, was killed and four other people were critically injured in a head-on collision between two cars along the Khanpur-Kandhkot section of the Indus Highway late Monday evening.

Bijarani’s funeral prayers were led by JI Emir Maulana Sirajul Haq in the former’s native Imamuddin Bijarani village of Kandhkot on Tuesday before the body was laid to rest in his ancestral graveyard.

Reports reaching here from Shikarpur suggested that Hafeez Bijarani along with his associate Dur Mohammad Bijarani was on his way back home by a car after attending an Iftar party in Khanpur town of Shikarpur district when it collided with another car, carrying a Hindu family, in the Parco area.

The JI leader died on the spot and Dur Mohammad Bijarani, Ranjeet Kumar, Nimirta Kumari and Burj Lal suffered multiple injuries in the accident.

The Hindu family was travelling from Kandhkot to Shikarpur to attend a festival at the shrine of a holy man.

All the injured were taken to the Shikarpur Taluka Hospital, where doctors referred the Hindu victims to the Sukkur Civil Hospital due to their critical condition.

Published in Dawn, March 20th, 2024