KARACHI: A politician associated with the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) was gunned down in a suspected targeted attack in the Dalmia area on Monday night, police said.

Aziz Bhatti SHO Saeed Ahmed Dharejo said that the victim, Faiq Khan, 40, was standing outside his home in Shanti Nagar when unknown assailants arrived there and shot him dead. The body was shifted to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre for medico-legal formalities.

The SHO suspected some personal enmity behind the murder. However, PPP-Sindh general secretary Waqar Mehdi told Dawn that it was a targeted killing as the suspects had shot Khan in the head.

He said the victim was a former councillor and presently the PPP president of union committee, Dalmia, adding that he also worked against anti-social elements in the area.

Meanwhile, Sindh Home Minister Ziaul Hasan Lanjar took notice of the murder and directed the arrest of the killers while ascertaining the exact motive of the incident.

Robbers shoot guard, take away Rs2.5m in Korangi

Robbers shot and wounded a private security guard and took away Rs2.5 million from a trader in Korangi on Monday.

Korangi SHO Mohammed Ali Niazi said that the trader, accompanied by a guard and two others, was driving towards a bank to deposit Rs2.5m when three armed men, also travelling in a car, intercepted their vehicle, held them at gunpoint and snatched the cash before shooting the guard.

The guard, identified as Amir Ahmed, 35, suffered a bullet wound in the head and was taken to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre, where his condition was stated to be out of danger.

CTD arrests ‘TTP militant’, seizes weapon

The Counter-Terrorism Department has claimed to have arrested a suspected militant belonging to the outlawed Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and recovered an unlicensed weapon from him.

CTD official Raja Umer Khattab said that suspect Khalil Rehman had recently made wall-chalking near the mausoleum of Quaid-i-Azam Mohammed Ali Jinnah, implying that the TTP was going to be active in the city.

He said that the held suspect belonged to the Noor Wali group of the proscribed TTP.

Published in Dawn, March 18th, 2025