KARACHI, Feb 6: A local political leader was shot dead in Saeedabad area on Wednesday.

Police suspected personal enmity as the motive behind the killing.

Zakir Khan, a city leader of Punjabi-Pakhtoon Ittehad, was standing outside a blocks manufacturing unit in Sector J-F of Saeedabad when four armed men on two motorbikes appeared and opened fire. “He received injuries and was rushed to a nearby hospital, where he was pronounced dead,” said a Saeedabad police station official.

“We gathered empties from the scene and have reached the conclusion that it was purely a result of personal enmity,” he said. Some of the killers had been identified, he said, adding that they would be arrested very soon.