The murder of two men in Orangi Town on Sunday – first a Pakthun and then an Urdu-speaker – in quick succession sparked violence in the area. Police said 40-year-old Abdul Karim, a Pakhtun, was gunned down in Bukhari Colony. The victim was standing with his friends outside his home, when two men on a motorcycle opened fire on him, killing the man on the spot. A few minutes later, 30-year-old Ibrahim, belonging to the Urdu-speaking community, was shot dead in the Ali Garh area. The bodies of both men were shifted to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital for postmortem, the police added. Following the murders, unidentified men fired aerial shots in the area and forcibly closed shops. Orangi Town SHO Asif Rauf told Pakistan Today that the victims were not affiliated with any political party. Karim was a security guard and Ibrahim, who was disabled, ran a grocery store. The police official suspected the killing of the two men might have been motivated by personal enmity. The police had not registered the two murder cases by the time this report was filed.
