KARACHI, Nov 12: Unidentified assailants shot dead a young man in North Karachi on Monday night.

Syed Badar Haider Naqvi, aged 28, was standing at a betel-leaves kiosk near Madiha Square in Sector 5-A/4 in North Karachi when two unknown assailants, riding on a motorcycle, came there and sprayed him with bullets and escaped.

He was rushed to Abbasi Shaheed Hospital where doctors pronounced him dead on arrival. Sources at the hospital said the young man suffered multiple bullet wounds to the head.

The SSP Central, Shaukat Husain, told Dawn that the betel- leaves kiosk was owned by Haider Naqvi and his brother and they sat at the shop in shifts.

It is too early to ascertain a precise motive behind the killing, SSP added. After the killing tension gripped the area and extra contingents of law-enforcement agencies were patrolling the area. A spokesman for the Tehreek-i-Jaferia Pakistan, Sindh, claimed that the victim was their activist.