KARACHI: A man and his son were shot dead while four others were wounded, allegedly by close relatives, due to a personal dispute in Azam Basti within the remit of the Mehmoodabad police station on Thursday evening, police said.

They added that Ghulam Rabbani, 50, and his son, 27-year-old Jalal Rabbani, were killed while four others — Faisal, Maham Faisal, Abu Bakr and Aaliya Javed — were wounded in their home near Punjab Bakery.

Mehmoodabad DSP Khushnood Javed told Dawn that the main suspect, identified as Malik Fatah Ali, is the brother-in-law of one of the killed men, while the wounded persons were the suspect’s maternal nephew/nieces. He said both the victims and the suspects lived in the same place and they had a “family dispute” going on for a considerable time.

Published in Dawn, August 15th, 2025