KARACHI: The Majlis Wahdat-i-Muslimeen protested on Sunday against the killing of three members of the Shia community in Korangi and Landhi. Two shopkeepers were killed on Saturday and a third one was wounded, who died on Sunday, party officials said.

Wazir Hussain and his nephew Mohammed Ahmed were shot dead in consecutive attacks in Zaman Town in what appeared to be part of the ongoing wave of targeted killing in the city on sectarian grounds, they added.

Badar Hussain was shot at and wounded in Labour Square in Landhi on Saturday and he died during treatment on Sunday.

The funeral prayers for the three, led by MWM central leader Allama Mohammed Amin Shaheedi, were held in Imambargah Hussaini in Korangi.

The MWM spokesperson said that 17 members of the Shia community, including five doctors, had been killed in ‘sectarian attacks’ in Korangi in recent times but the authorities had failed to control the killings.

Speaking to the mourners, Allama Shaheedi said the Sindh government had failed to implement their demands agreed in talks between them and officials at Chief Minister House. He demanded arrest of the hit men involved in the targeted killings and warned that otherwise they would take an “extreme action”.

Published in Dawn, January 26th, 2015

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