Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat’s (ASWJ) Islamabad General Secretary Mufti Muneer Ahmed was shot dead by two unidentified gunmen on Friday.
Mufti Muneer Ahmed and Asad Mehmood, an ASWJ office bearer, were targeted after Friday prayers in Sector I-8. The assailants riding a motorcyclist approached the two after they left congregational prayers on Friday afternoon.
Witnesses to the scene said that the two gunmen sped off towards Faizabad, Rawalpindi after carrying out the attack.
The bodies of the two ASWJ men remained on the road as members of the ASWJ protested following the killing. The ASWJ Twitter account suggested the attack was sectarian in nature.
Many members of ASWJ were the victims of targeted killings in 2013.
Three members of a family, associated with the Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat (ASWJ), were gunned down in Karachi in December.
In the same month, Maulana Shamsur Rehman Muawiya, the chief of ASWJ’s Punjab chapter, was killed after unidentified gunmen opened fire on his car along Ravi Road. The ASWJ leader was returning home after leading Friday prayers at the Muhammadi Mosque in the Ravi Road locality.
ASWJ has in the past demanded that increased security should be provided to them following frequent attacks on the organisation’s leaders.
