A Shia scholar and an activist of the Awami National Party were among three people gunned down in the city, police said on Friday.

Seventy-year-old Allama Ghazanfar Ali was shot dead in the afternoon in Turi Bangash Colony, Nazimabad.

SSP Central Amir Farooqi said Ali, the prayer leader at the Noor-e-Aman Masjid located in Nazimabad No 1, was heading towards the mosque for Friday prayers when two men riding a motorcycle shot him four times - twice in the head - using 9mm pistols.

Ali was pronounced dead at the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital.

The police official said the murder appeared to be sectarian in nature. Ali’s funeral prayer was offered at the Rizvia Imambargah, where many members of the Shia community staged a protest and demanded the arrest of the killers.

The scholar’s body was later sent to his home city, Peshawar.

ANP man killed

An ANP activist was murdered near Jamshed Petrol Pump in MPR Colony, Peerabad.

SHO Abdul Moeed said 50-year-old Bismillah Jan, who owned a shop in Light House, Saddar, was shot by two men riding a motorcycle near his home.

Jan died during treatment at the Civil Hospital. The SHO said Jan had suffered two bullet wounds. The attackers used a 9mm pistol.

ANP leaders and activists staged a protest in Peerabad and demanded the arrest of the attackers.

Murder in Bin Qasim

A man was shot dead and another injured in an attack in Pipri Sindh Goth, Bin Qasim.

Police arrested two of the assailants after an encounter.

SP Malir Jawed Ahmed Bhatti said Rashid alias Raju and Arshad were sitting at a tea stall at night when three men travelling in a car bearing registration number AEP-980 arrived there opened fire on the two men.

A police team patrolling the area in a van chased the car and after a shoot-out arrested Mobin Kakay Putu and Asif Lashari.

Their associate, Liaquat, managed to escape.

Rashid breathed his last at the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre.

The police official said the murder appeared to be motivated by personal enmity, but further information would be revealed after interrogating the arrested men.

Source: Shafaqna