Gunmen in Mirpurkhas’s Mali Colony area shot dead a doctor from Ahmadi community, police and members of the community said Tuesday, in the latest attack on one of the country’s most persecuted groups.
The assailants stormed Mubashar Ahmad Khosa’s clinic on Monday evening.
“He was attending to patients at his clinic when two unknown assailants came in and fired at him repeatedly before fleeing on a motorbike,” a statement by a community group said.
Zafarullah Dharejo, a senior local police official, added that a third attacker kept watch outside.
Khosa, who was a well-known in the area, succumbed to his injuries on his way to hospital.
Dharejo said, “The doctor got a text message half an hour before the murder asking him to come out of his clinic.”
Mali Colony locals said that Khosa was a resident of Satellite Town and had been working in their area for a long time.
Khosa’s body was taken to Civil Hospital Mirpurkhas for post-mortem. However, no First Information Report (FIR) was registered.
The police officer said that in 2008, another Ahmadi doctor was gunned down in a similar way in the same city.
Earlier in July, at least three female members of the Ahmadi community, including two minors, had been killed in Gujranwala’s People’s Colony when a mob attacked and burnt five houses, a storage building and several vehicles over alleged blasphemy.
Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) of the People’s Colony Circle had said that the trouble started with an allegedly blasphemous post on Facebook by an Ahmadi youth.
