A lawyer was killed on Friday in an attack on the vehicle of former Sindh High Court judge, Justice Zawar Hussain Jaffery outside the latter’s residence in Block-V of Gulshan 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 judge 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 the 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 sub-machineguns, a rifle, a rope, a knife and bullets were seized from their possession. The Crime Investigation Department 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.
