KARACHI, March 28: Police have registered a case in connection with the Tuesday killings of an activist of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement and his brother in the PIB Colony area.

An FIR (84/2012) was lodged by the sister-in-law of the slain MQM activist, Mansoor Mukhtar, under Sections 302 (premeditated murder), 324 (attempted murder) and 34 (common intention) of the Pakistan Panel Code at the PIB Colony police station in the early hours of Wednesday.

A duty officer at the PIB Colony police station said that the complainant, who also sustained bullet wounds in the attack which claimed the lives of her husband Masood Mukhtar and brother-in-law Mansoor, had nominated Ahmed Ali Magsi and two unidentified persons in the FIR.

Interior Minister Rehman Malik announced on Tuesday that the name of Mr Magsi — whom he described as a gangster — had been placed on the exit control list.

The wounded woman is still under treatment at a private hospital.