Two ASWJ activists gunned down

Two activists of the Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat (ASWJ) – a reorganised version of the banned militant outfit Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan (SSP) – were gunned down by unidentified assailants outside the city courts on Tuesday.
After the incident, unidentified armed men resorted to aerial firing in the old city areas and forced the shopkeepers to close down businesses.
Reportedly, the ASWJ activists, identified as Muhammad Ali, 35, and Muhammad Noman, 30, were returning after attending court proceedings when two gunmen riding a motorcycle sprayed them with bullets, killing both of them on the spot.
The bodies of the deceased were shifted to the Civil Hospital Karachi (CHK) and handed over to their heirs after post-mortem.
Talking with Pakistan Today, Risala SHO Abid Hussain said that both victims were affiliated with ASWJ. “Ali and Noman were in a rickshaw after attending a case hearing in city courts when two gunmen, wearing helmets, shot them dead at Tahir Faisaluddin Road,” he said. “The heirs have not approached the police for registering a case.”
ASWJ spokesman Taj Hanfi claimed that Ali was a legal adviser and ASWJ’s Core Committee chairman while Noman was also an active worker of the organisation.
Condemning the murders, he demanded the government to arrest the criminals involved in the incident.
Separately, another man was shot dead by unidentified attackers in the Mansehra Colony, Landhi.
Sharafi Goth police said that the victim, identified as Zalay Khan, 30, was killed over a personal enmity.
Police have registered a case against unidentified suspects on the complaint by the victim’s son.
Another man, Ishaq Abbas, was gunned down by unidentified gunmen near the Paan Mandi in Nayyabad, Lyari.
Baghdadi police said the body of the deceased was taken to CHK but the reason behind the man’s murder could not be ascertained
POLICE CONSTABLE KILLED: A police constable was shot dead by bandits during a robbery bid in the Ghausia Baloch Mohalla, Sector 11 ½, Orangi Town during the early hours of Tuesday.
Pakistan Bazaar police said that bandits open fire at Shahid, son of Iqbal, who had intercepted two robbers who were snatching valuables from a pedestrian. The police constable received a bullet in his head and died on spot.