KARACHI, Nov 1: An alleged gangster was killed on Saturday in the city, police and witnesses said.

The Ferozabad police said that Salman Pervez, an alleged member of the criminal underworld, was killed in the small hours of Saturday on Tariq Road.

The police registered a case against his business partners on the complaint of the victim’s widow, Durdana, who named Shafique Farooqi, Naveed Fasih, Jameel, Khurum, Khurrum Pathan and Yousuf in the FIR No 1142/2008.

The police said that the victim had gone with Yousuf after dropping his wife at a wedding function.

They said that Yousuf called the victim’s wife telling her that her husband was critically wounded and was at Aga Khan Hospital.

The police said that Yousuf disappeared from the scene after shifting the body to the hospital.

Later the body was moved to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre for a post mortem examination.

Sources at the hospital’s medico-legal section told Dawn that the victim received three bullets, two in the upper torso and the one in the hip.

The police said that the victim was a close aide of Shoaib Khan, an underworld don who had died at the Central Prison.

They said that Salman was also linked with Khalid Shahenshah, a slain leader of the Pakistan People’s Party, who was also killed in an attack near his Clifton residence early this year.

Sources said that Salman was also picked up by the police following the murder of Khalid Shahenshah.