KARACHI: Man found shot dead

Published December 8, 2008

KARACHI, Dec 7: The bullet-riddled body of a 38-year-old man was found in Block G of North Nazimabad.

The Shahrah-i-Noorjahan police said that the victim, Mairaj Uddin, son of Inayat, was a tailor by profession and had his outlet at Hyderi Market. He was a resident of Khandoo Goth in the limits of Liaquatabad police.

The body was shifted to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital.

Sources at the hospital’s medico-legal section told Dawn that the victim, who hailed from Pakpattan, had received multiple bullets from a very close range as the bullets had gone through his body.

The police said the incident seemed to be motivated by a personal enmity. A case was registered against unknown culprits on the complaint of the victim’s brother, Mohammed Riyaz.—Staff Reporter