KARACHI: A worker of the outlawed Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat (ASWJ), who was shot at and wounded in a targeted attack in Pak Colony on Feb 5, died during treatment at a hospital on Monday, police and his party said.

Pak Colony SHO Mukhtiar Ahmed Panhwar said that Saad Farooqi was sitting at his marble shop near Bara Board when armed men opened fire on him and fled. He suffered two bullet wounds in the shoulder and face and was under treatment at the Dr Ruth Pfau Civil Hospital Karachi, where he died on Monday.

He said it appeared to be a targeted killing incident.

Meanwhile, an ASWJ spokesperson said that the victim was an office-bearer of the party’s Pak Colony chapter.

Three gunned down in city

Three men were shot dead in different parts of the city on Monday, police said.

Police say Saad Farooqi suffered bullet wounds in a targeted attack on Feb 5

The Sachal police said 40-year-old Jamshed Ahmer was shot and killed by unknown assailants near Sareena Village in Scheme-33.

They added that the victim was a rickshaw driver.

He was asleep inside his rickshaw when unidentified suspect(s) shot him in the head. The deceased was a resident of Rajput Colony, Gulshan-i-Iqbal.

Separately, Mukhtiar Alam, 28, was shot and killed by an unknown suspect due to ‘personal enmity’ in a PIB Colony near Faizan Madina Masjid, PIB Colony police said.

They added that armed pillion riders targeted the victim near his residence. He was a cook at a tandoor in the area.

In another incident, a 30-year-old man, Mohammed Faizan, was gunned down at Korangi-5 near Khadi stop.

Police said that one spent bullet casing, fired from a .30-bore pistol, was recovered from the spot while two bullets were also recovered from the pocket of the deceased.

The victim was a resident of the C-1 area in Landhi.

The police said Faizan had been involved in robberies and had a past criminal record, adding there were apprehensions that he might have been killed by his accomplices over some issue.

The body was shifted to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre for medico-legal formalities.

Published in Dawn, February 13th, 2024