KARACHI, Jan 31: Police are groping in the dark over the killing of the wife and daughter of Balochistan MPA Sahibzada Bakhtiar Domki and their driver in the city’s Gizri area on late Monday night. The deceased, Jhumar, 31, was granddaughter and Jana, 13, great-granddaughter of slain Baloch leader Nawab Akbar Bugti.

The driver has not been identified.

Soon after the incident, Karachi police chief Additional IG Akhtar Gorchani described the killing as a result of personal enmity.

Mr Domki told a TV channel on Tuesday that he did not believe the government of Sindh would be able effectively to conduct an investigation.

“Now our women are being targeted,” he said. Mr Domki is a member of Balochistan Assembly from Sibi.

Officials, who did not want to be named, told this correspondent that initial investigation suggested that the assailants had spared a young girl, a domestic maid, and also did not plan to kill the driver, but he was killed because he had put up resistance.

The bereaved family has decided not to expose the maid and have not disclosed her name even to police, apparently for security reasons.

Police said that before the incident, the mother and daughter had attended wedding of daughter of Sindh Assembly Speaker Nisar Khuro with son of Agha Shahid Bugti. A senior police officer said that after the reception, the family had gone to the house of a relative in Gizri area. They were going to their house in DHA Phase VII, the officer said.

But police were unable to say if the assailants were in a car or on a motorcycle. The car used by the family was registered in Karachi and bore the number plate of an MPA. “Two weapons (AK-47) rifles were used in the murder and numerous spent bullet casings were found from the crime scene while an empty magazine of the assault rifle was also found, District South SSP Naeem Shaikh said.

The bodies were taken to Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre for legal formalities.

The lady medico legal officer at the JPMC said that Jhumar suffered eight bullet wounds and her daughter Jana two. After completion of legal formalities, the bodies were shifted to the house of their relative in Clifton and later taken to Jaffarabad for burial.