KARACHI:
A senior lawyer from ‘Shia sect’ who was also a counsel for several activists of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) was shot dead in Karachi’s Korangi No 1 1/2 on Wednesday.
Two motorbike-riders intercepted the lawyer’s vehicle as he left his residence for work. The gunmen shot him thrice and managed to escape from the site after the attack.
The victim succumbed to his wounds after being taken to hospital.
An MQM spokesperson stated while talking to private media outlets that the killing was the fourth incident of its kind during the past week.
Police and emergency teams reached the spot and security personnel cleared off the area to probe into the incident.
Since 2007, increasing violence in Pakistan — with militants targeting political leaders, the military and police, clerics, tribal leaders, members of the Shia sect and schools — has become a norm in Karachi.