KARACHI, May 5: Unidentified assailants shot a young man to death in Gulbahar on Sunday morning.
The police said that Waqar Husain Shah, aged 22, was sitting at his vegetable shop at Liaquat Chowk in Gulbahar Bazaar when unidentified assailants, riding on a motorcycle, opened fire on him and escaped.
The police said that the man was hit by two bullets and died on the spot.
The police sent the body to Abbasi Shaheed Hospital for post-mortem. The dead man was resident of Sarhad Ittehad Colony.
The police said that Shah was a friend of a slain activist of the banned Sipah-i-Sahaba Pakistan, Athar, who had been killed last year in an ambush at an election office during the local bodies polls in the police limits of Rizvia.
According to initial investigations, Shah himself was not an active member of the banned sectarian group, but he used to hang around with members of the group, the police said.
A senior police officer said that the dead man’s funeral was not attended by SSP activists.
WOUNDED: A doctor was shot and wounded outside his clinic in Khokhrapar, Malir, on Sunday.
The police said that as Dr Athar Husain Rizvi, aged 50, arrived at his Swaleh Clinic in F-South in Khokhrapar on his motorcycle, two unidentified men, who were waiting for him, opened fire on him and escaped on their motorcycle.
The doctor was rushed to Jinnah Post-graduate Medical Centre (JPMC) where he was provided treatment. He was later shifted to a private hospital.
Sources at the JPMC said that the doctor had been hit by a bullet in his left cheek which pierced through the right side of his neck.
Despite being wounded, the doctor recorded his statement to the police. He was stated to be in stable condition when this report was filed.
Dr Rizvi resided in Sabir Colony, Malir Extension, and he was a well-known doctor in the area, the police said.
SUICIDE: A young housewife committed suicide in her home in Orangi Town on late Saturday night.
The police said that Atiya Batool, aged 20, took poison in her home in Mominabad, Orangi Town. She was rushed to Abbasi Shaheed Hospital where she was pronounced dead.
