Just hours before re-polling in selected polling stations of the NA-250 constituency in Karachi, unidentified motorcyclists gunned down a senior female office bearer of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) outside her house in Karachi’s affluent Defence area.
According to police, PTI Sindh Senior Vice President Zahra Shahid Hussain was shot dead outside her house in Defence Phase IV late on Saturday night. The motive of the attack could not be immediately ascertained, with some police officials suspecting it to be a murder during robbery while others termed it a targeted killing.
Senior Superintendent of Police Nasir Aftab said that initial findings pointed to a case of a purse snatching gone wrong.
He said that per Hussain’s daughter, her mother got into their car to leave. The driver wheeled the car out and was locking up the gate behind her when two men on a motorcycle pulled up and tried to snatch her purse. “When she resisted they shot her.”
Hussain was immediately taken to Jinnah Postgraduate Hospital but she succumbed to her wounds. Doctors said a bullet to her head had caused her death.
Hussain was a founding member of the party and was also the chief polling agent for the NA-250 constituency, which has become controversial after the PTI accused its rival Muttahida Qaumi Movement of rigging the election.
While the PTI demanded re-polling in some areas of the constituency and staged a sit-in protest for seven days at Teen Talwar Chowk, the MQM had been demanding re-election in the entire constituency and staged protests of its own. However, the Election Commission stuck its ground and ordered re-polling on only 43 polling stations. The ECP decision angered the MQM and they announced to boycott the re-polling, calling it unfair to the party’s mandate.
On the first day of the PTI sit-in, MQM Chairman Altaf Hussain had given a veiled threat to PTI supporters to call off their protest or risk retribution by supporters of his party. He had also demanded separating Karachi from Pakistan if the party’s mandate was unacceptable to the Establishment and parties opposed to the MQM.
However, the MQM chairman was quick to condemn Zohra Hussain’s murder.
In a statement issued from London, Altaf extended condolences to the PTI leadership, Zohra’s family and party workers and prayed for her eternal peace.
Demanding immediate justice, Altaf said her killers should be brought to book and given exemplary punishment.
IMRAN ACCUSES ALTAF
But in Lahore, PTI Chairman Imran Khan held the MQM chief directly responsible for the murder of the senior party leader, who is the widow of a former ambassador Shahid Hussain.
“I also hold the British Govt responsible as I had warned them abt Br citizen Altaf Hussain after his open threat to kill PTI workers,” Imran tweeted soon after Zohra Hussain’s murder was reported on TV channels.
PTI Information Secretary Shireen Mazari said that PTI workers and supporters faced a serious threat in Karachi following Zohra Hussain’s murder in cold blood.
Arif Alvi, the PTI candidate in NA-250, appealed his supporters to remain calm.
altaf is dog and his followers are ediots.
How can we stand by while this evil man goes about ordering the killings while sitting in a fancy home, may he face the worst of deaths & sufferage.
{How can we stand by while this evil man goes about ordering the killings while sitting in a fancy home, may he face the worst of deaths & sufferage}……
My dear, Altaf is the precise choice for the job he doing. He was hired for this particular job and nothing else. Like a butcher who feels great sensation over the sound of ruptured throat, he too is a man of pain. He knows little about the higher ideals of mankind, about compassion, love, greatness and forgiveness. He is a fractured mind. If it is to describe his dark character,thousands words are not enough. To understand Altaf Hussain you have to understand shatan. He is just simple to decode. The problem is…why he has stayed that long to lead MQM?(In my opinion its toooo long)
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"Angry cousins" did it …
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this is only because of so-called democarcy in pakistan..no one can ask MQM for this and many others ….
kia Pakistan mn kisi ko itni jurat nhi k wo es napak altaf hussain ko us k enjam tk poncha dy… Talban kahan ho tum es ulu k pathy ka b koi elaaj kr do
Taliban are BUSY to provide full support to Mr. Taliban Khan (your PTI Chief) !!!
Is it not clear that mqm is a terrorist movement. Ppl of Pakistan please open your eyes!!!
PTI good for nothing except hate mongering. All politicians in Pak are NAPAK but R@PIST IK
Wake up PTI workers and think that only an idiot in any party can kill the opponent just hours before elections. Think dear who could be the beneficiary except Talibans who have not only killed an enlightened and well educated lady of Karachi but also have brought two urban parties of Pakistan at a loggerhead. Dont forget educated ladies are the one Talibans fear the most no matter how young that lady be like Malala.
@ M Asif. Mr Altaf Hussain is an idiot.
So there goes your argument.
As if that was not bad enough, many in the MQM are thugs, murderers and extortions in addition to being idiots!
What about your PTI Chief who is a big idiot, immediately blamed this to MQM without any evidence. Again showed his inexperience in politics. Learn some lesson from Nawaz Sharif who is more matured politician than before. Josh se nahi hoosh se kaam lo.
Another woman killed in cold blood. Now we have another martyr for democracy.
I weep for her family and also for our homeland.
Her name shows her affiliation with shia community so why people are overruling this possibility of sectarian killing by giving it cover of political feud..Her killing might given someone license to be right Muslim and a ticket to heaven along with many hoors for killing a shia lady in this world.
IK as usual did more stupidity as per expectation.Might be side effects of pain killers and tranquilizers but risking the life of emotional workers of pti who are leading procession without top leadership of PTI.Karachi is now owned by all kind of militants gangs of political and religious groups so who knows who are real killers of lady but all are ready to target MQM for this murder.
just a prayer like guess,nothing more.When it comes to PTI and karachi, the worst fear of MQM is women.Nearly all educated and enlightened women in karachi show political inclination towards Tehreek e Insaaf.Though,this one NA seat hardly shake MQM off its balance in national assembly, yet the growing strength of PTI in karachi is direct and extended future threat to MQM in the city. Anybody knows the dirty business MQM is doing,Imran Khan is the only man to challenge it and he has pledged to stop it. Just forget Taliban,for if you are a woman of sharp wits, you can easily perceive that for a calculated time period taliban,ppp,MQM ISI and CIA are opted to work together under the friendly influence of one and the only mighty superpower.
all pakistanis plz get togather and prey, that the Almighty blesses her soul, and plz join in to support the family that she leaves behind.
as for altaf bahi…..what can you say he is a liar, coward ,cheat, plz add to this list in your replies thankyou
mqm >>>> evil and animals
This murder has definitely left a very bad taste ,after the election
There was a time in Pakistan , not so long ago that “Women” were never
ever ,robbed or raped let alone killed .What has happened to our society.
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"What has happened to our society" ???
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It is raising a lot of "angry brothers", "angry cousins" and so forth for various purposes …
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Let's face it : IK is a patron, Nawaz is a patron, so is Altaf, ISI, and every other interest in town …
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And now it is part of a culture …
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MQM is responsible for this act…. Iltaf Sharabi is the murderer!!!
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