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Another Haqiqi man gunned down in Karachi
The police said that the victim received two bullets in his chest and skull from a close range. —AP/File photo
KARACHI: A 35-year-old worker of the Mohajir Qaumi Movement (Haqiqi) was gunned down on Friday in Liaquatabad, police and witnesses said.
The Sharifabad police said that the victim, Mohammed Aamir, son of Abdur Rasheed, was a resident of Liaquatabad No. 4, and he was shot dead near a furniture market by two unidentified attackers on a motorcycle at around 7.45pm.
A spokesman for the MQM Haqiqi, Feroze Haider, told Dawn that the victim, the father of two, was a party worker who had been living in Lahore for a long time. 'He was going to visit his family when he was targeted near his house,' he added.
He said that the victim, a Suzuki pickup driver by profession, lived close to the house of Aamir Khan, the chief of his own faction of the MQM Haqiqi.
The police said that the victim received two bullets in his chest and skull from a close range.
They said that no case was registered till late as the medico-legal proceedings were still being conducted.
Another 30-year-old man was shot dead in the small hours of Friday morning at PMT Society, Korangi, witnesses and police said.
The witnesses said that the victim, Syed Ehsaan Ali, son of Syed Tawangar Ali, was playing carom at a club near Madina General Store when at around 2.30am two unidentified attackers came there on a motorcycle and the pillion rider shot him in his head from a point blank range.
They said the victim, a city government employee in Landhi Town, died on the spot as the attackers rode away after their swift operation.
The body was later moved to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre, where medico-legal sources said that the victim was shot a single bullet to the head. They said that the bullet hit the temple and exited from the back of the head, blowing off the skull.
The police said that it could not immediately be ascertained if the victim was affiliated with a political or religious party. They suspected a personal enmity behind the killing of the young man.
They said that a case (FIR No. 592/2009) was registered against unidentified assailants under Sections 302 (pre-meditated murder) and 34 (common intention) of the Pakistan Penal Code on the complaint of the victim’s younger brother, Syed Furqan Ali.
DAWN:Saturday, 11 Jul, 2009
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