SHC advocate and children killed in Karachi firing; lawyers boycott courts
Dawn.com
Published
May 28, 2013
KARACHI: An advocate of the Sindh High Court (SHC) and two of his children were killed Tuesday when gunmen opened fire on his car at Maripur road near Native Jetty bridge in Karachi, DawnNews reported.
The lawyer identified as Kosar Saqlain was attacked by unknown gunmen while he was on his way to drop the two children to school.
The deceased were shifted to Civil Hospital.
Meanwhile, lawyers in Karachi boycotted court proceedings in protest against the killing, prompting the Chief Justice of the Sindh High Court to take notice of the incident.
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ghani
May 28, 2013 11:00am
It was a targeted shia killing.
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Fazal
May 28, 2013 12:59pm
The new PM Mr. Nawaz Sharif should focus on stopping the continous target killing of minorities e.g. Shias! Saving innocent lives is more important than providing electricity! The PM should try to root out the 'taibaanization' from the country before it is too late!
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i m noorani
May 28, 2013 01:54pm
This is not the fiirst time and unfortunately may not be the last time. When we as a nation will gather courage to say 'this is not acceptable'. Chase one culprit, we must. What stops the powers that be to look out for elements responsible to create this type of mindset ?
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i m noorani
May 28, 2013 02:38pm
This is not happening for the first time and unfortunately may not be for the last time. When we as a nation will gather wisdom and courage to say that this is not acceptable. Chase one culprit, we must. What stops the powers that be to go after elements responsible to spread such a skewed and cruel mindset? i.m.noorani
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zahid
May 28, 2013 03:33pm
1 more Shia killed. Do anyone care?
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Ghumman
May 28, 2013 04:34pm
@ghani:
He was not shia, dont spread haterd among the society
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Wally
May 28, 2013 05:29pm
We as a nation have become senseless and used to "Shia Killing". We will wake up when this menace gets to all of us without discrimination. It is a big conspiracy to break Pakistan into pieces.
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AQ
May 28, 2013 06:28pm
PTI and JI should immediately blame MQM for this target killing and call London Metropolitan Police. While LeJ leaders should be praised for their anti-drone, anti-west, and anti-India stance
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agakhan
May 28, 2013 06:53pm
Pakistan literally stands for land of the pure. In the first stage of purification the sunnis, shias, and ahmadiyas together got rid ethnically cleansed the hindus and sikhs from Pakistan. Population of hindus and sikhs dropped from upward of 25% down to less than 2%. The process of purification did not stop, next it was turn of ahmadiyas who were declared non-muslims by the sunnis and shias. Continuing with the process of purification of Pak land, next it was shias turn who have been at the receiving end of this process of purification for some time now. Of course the Christians need to be cleansed too, so every now and then there is a pogrom against them too.
This process of purification of Pakistan will continue till only the purest among the pures are left, it is the religious duty of the citizen of a nation created in the name of religion!
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anony
May 28, 2013 07:19pm
People...STOP this shia-sunni nonsense. It doesn't say in the article above that the killed man was a Shia. Its posts/thinking like these that alienate Shia's even more in Pakistan. We should think of ourselves as MUSLIMS, and NOT shias or sunnis. We ourselves are digging our graves by applying the "divide n conquer" on ourselves. Our enemies would be laughign at us.
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