KARACHI, Aug 31: Additional district and sessions judge Zulfiqar H. Naqvi, who had been gunned down in Quetta on Thursday, was laid to rest here in the Wadi-i-Hussain graveyard along the Superhighway on Friday with strong condemnation from religious quarters of the ongoing wave of killings on sectarian grounds.

A large number of people, including religious leaders, attended the funeral of Mr Naqvi whose body was brought here at the Quaid-i-Azam International Airport through PIA flight PK-321.

The body was transported from the airport to his residence in Federal B Area block 12.

Mr Naqvi, in his mid-40s, is survived by a widow and aged parents.

Later, the funeral prayers led by Maulana Mohammad Hasan were offered at Masjid Khairul Amal in Incholi.

Mr Naqvi came under attack in Quetta on Thursday morning when he was going to his office from the Government Officers’ Residence Colony in the Chalam Housing Society. The attack also left his gunman and driver dead.

“Pakistan has fallen prey to terrorism where a particular group brands fellow Muslims as non-Muslims and then carries out their genocide,” said a statement issued by the Majlis-i-Wahdat-i-Muslimeen Karachi chapter while condemning Mr Naqvi’s murder.

“Off-shoots of the banned terrorist organisations have always claimed responsibility for such genocide. Now the judiciary and the legal fraternity should also agree with their demand that these terrorists be brought to justice.”