HYDERABAD, June 23: Civic life had been disturbed in the Sarafa Bazar area night after an activist of Muttahida Qaumi Movement, fired upon over a dispute in the Fort police jurisdiction on Saturday night, died in a Karachi hospital on Sunday evening.

Sketchy details of the incident were known as everyone is tight-lipped, while no formal FIR was lodged till filing of this report at 8pm. The Fort police said no one had turned-up to get an FIR registered.

The deceased was identified as Kashif, resident of street no-1 Pucca Qilla and worker of MQM’s Sector-D. He was friendly with a jeweller Aziz alias Baddo who had a monetary dispute with his cousins.

It was learnt that a scuffle took place between Aziz and his cousins on Saturday night in Sarafa bazaar near Sunar Gali with report that Riaz Raju, Faisal and Mumtaz were also involved in the incident.

Aziz took along with him Kashif, Waseem, Majid and an unidentified person to sort out the dispute with his cousins and relatives present there.

While Kashif was negotiating someone opened fire on him. The bullet hit him in the neck and head and was taken to hospital by Waseem on the motorbike. He was immediately shifted to the Liaquat National Hospital (LNH) Karachi where he died on Sunday evening.

As his body arrived in the locality, some miscreants resorted to aerial firing at Pucca Qilla roundabout and lit bonfires. They forced the shopkeepers to close their outlets. Kashif was laid to rest in Tando Yusuf graveyard.

Police have picked up Aziz and father of Majid as he was at large. None from the other side was arrested by police. Shops in Sarafa Bazaar remained closed on Monday as miscreants fired shots in the area. People preferred to remain indoors.—BoC