KARACHI: A senior lawyer who was also the son-in-law of prominent Shia scholar and orator Allama Talib Jauhari was shot dead on Wednesday.
Sixty-year-old Syed Mubarak Raza Kazmi was shot dead by four men riding two motorcycles in 13/B, Gulshan-e-Iqbal.
Kazmi was returning from the City Courts to his residence in Block 18 of Federal B Area.
Mr Kazmi was taken to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre, where doctors pronounced him dead on arrival.
A police official said Mr Kazmi used the same route to return home and had stopped at a shop to buy fruit when he was attacked at around 2:30pm.
Four gunmen riding two motorcycles attacked him, said Karachi East SSP Pir Mohammad Shah.
A patrolling police party chased the attackers when they were fleeing after committing the murder and caught up with them on the main University Road but they escaped, claimed the officer.
Separately, gang members attacked a Shia family travelling in a car on Liaquatabad Flyover, killing a woman and injuring her husband and son.
The wounded were taken to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital, where doctors pronounced Huma, 40, dead while her husband, Bilal Hussain, 50, and son, Hasnain, 14, were admitted to for treatment.
The Azizabad police officer said the victims were members of the Shia community.
Police said victims, residents of Nazimabad, were returning home after visiting their relatives in Gulshan-e-Maymar when the assailants fired gunshots at their vehicle.
The police believe that the attack was motivated by sectarianism and the actual target was the husband.
Since Tuesday night, four Shia community members have been gunned down in the city and two have suffered injuries, a spokesperson for the Majlis-i- Wahdat-i-Muslimeen said.
He condemned targeted killing of Shias and said the government had failed to prevent the killings and arresting culprits involved in the murders.
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