KARACHI, May 15: The owner of a construction company and his driver were shot dead in an ambush in Gulistan-i-Jauhar Wednesday night.

Police said two unidentified armed men sprayed a car (ADV- 841) with bullets near Decent Apartments in Block-7, and ran away. The occupants of the car, Mohammad Iqbal Gul, aged 50, owner of Gul Construction Company, and his driver Mohammad Qamar suffered multiple bullet wounds.

The injured were taken to a nearby private hospital where they were pronounced dead. Later, their bodies were shifted to the JPMC for post-mortem.

Iqbal Gul had left his Rehman Villa house in Gulistan-i-Jauhar for his office, located on University Road. The police sources said that twenty-eight bullet holes were found on the car’s body and 14 empty bullets were recovered at the place of the incident.

The sources said two unidentified persons, taking a pushcart and posing themselves as junk-dealers, had stayed near the Decent Apartments in the afternoon. As the car appeared there, they pulled out their weapons which might had been concealed in the junks and opened fire on the vehicle and escaped.

Iqbal Gul had a business rivalry with his opponent builder Riffat Zaman Kiyani and his brothers and it might be an outcome of a professional enmity, the sources added.

They said 16 cases of different nature were registered against Iqbal Gul at Gulistan-i-Jauhar police station.

He was also named in eight cases of illegal occupation of land, four cases of police encounters, one case of an attempt to killing. Besides, Gul was allegedly involved in keeping illegal weapons.

The police said his rival Riffat Kiyani was also named in almost 25 cases of different nature, including illegal occupation of land etc.