A lawyer was killed on Friday in an attack on the vehicle of a former Sindh High Court (SHC) judge outside the latter’s residence in Block-V of Gulshan-e-Iqbal.
Later, police managed to arrest two alleged assailants, who, according to sources, are affiliated with the Lashkar-e-Jhangvi. They added that it was a sectarian attack as the former SHC judge Justice Zawar Hussain Jaffery is Shia and so was the deceased lawyer.
According to details, the judge was at his residence when a lawyer, Zainul Abideen, came to visit him.
Some assailants in Cultus car opened fire at judge’s vehicle parked outside his home, injuring Abideen in the process.
When the security guard of the judge opened fire on the escaping attackers, they lost control of their vehicle and rammed their car into the wall of a nearby house.
They tried to escape on foot, but by that time, the police had reached there and arrested two of them following a brief encounter.
The injured lawyer was taken to the Aga Khan hospital where he succumbed to his injuries. The body was later shifted to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital.
The arrested men were identified as Jameel and Muneer and one Kalashnikov, two Uzi pistols, a rifle, a rope, a knife and bullets were recovered from their possession. The Crime Investigation Department of the police took them into custody and shifted them to an undisclosed location. The sources said that the two men are members of the banned Lashkar-e-Jhangvi and important information could be extracted from them during interrogation.
They also said that the attackers were had used a fake number plate on their vehicle.
very sad
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