Lawyer gunned down outside his house in Lahore

Published February 4, 2025 Updated February 4, 2025 11:10am

LAHORE: A lawyer was gunned down by unidentified armed men at his doorstep in Chuhng area here on Monday morning.

The attackers sprayed Advocate Mohammad Naveed with bullets soon after he parked his car outside his Sultan Town house and pressed the doorbell.

Police say the lawyer received three bullets in his head and face area, which left him dead on the spot.

The police suspect it to be target killing, resulting from some old enmity.

Chuhng SHO Nasir Hameed told Dawn that Advocate Naveed was targeted when he returned home after dropping his children to the school.

He said the attackers riding a motorcycle approached the victim by violating one-way traffic and the firing was so sudden that he couldn’t find time to rush for any shelter.

The SHO says that initial inquiries suggest that accomplices of the attackers were already present near the crime scene in a car, who were keeping the killers informed of the victim’s movement.

He said both the motorcyclists and the car occupants left the scene immediately after the attack. The SHO said the policeimmediately responded to an emergency call about the firing, and picketed the area roundup the killers.

He says a separate police team examined the data from private cameras installed in the area and traced the fleeing attackers’ route.

Police experts are trying to track down the attackers with the help of the Punjab Safe Cities Authority cameras as well, he adds.

To a question, the SHO says the police are working on the case mainly from two angles – first, that the deceased had divorced his wife and contracted second marriage, and the other that the lawyer has been receiving threats from some proclaimed offender wanted in a murder case.

The body has been shifted to the city morgue for autopsy, says.

The police registered a murder case against the unidentified killers on the complaint of the deceased’s father Mian Jamil.

Published in Dawn, February 4th, 2025

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