KARACHI: Zubair Baloch, the younger brother of chief of the outlawed Peoples Amn Committee Uzair Baloch, who was shot and wounded in Lyari over a month ago, died during treatment at a hospital on Monday, officials said.

Chakiwara SHO Inam Husain Junejo said that Zubair, 40, was targeted by unknown assailants on July 30 near his residence in Singulane. He was initially taken to the Civil Hospital Karachi from where he was shifted to a private hospital on Stadium Road where he died during treatment.

He said that Zubair sustained bullet wounds in the abdomen.

The police said that he was arrested in several cases in 2012 and was released from prison in 2025.

Published in Dawn, September 1st, 2026