In a suspected target attack incident, a religious scholar was shot dead in Karachi’s Gulistan-i-Jauhar locality on Tuesday, media reports said.
Gulistan-i-Jauhar police told Dawn News that Mufti Abdul Qayum, 45, associated with the Sunni Ulema Council was gunned down by unidentified men riding pillion on a motorcycle in the locality’s Block-9.
The incident occurred at around 7 am
The body was later taken to Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre to fulfil legal formalities
East-SSP, Zubair Nazeer Shaikh said that it appeared to be a targeted killing incident. According to reports Mufti Qayum, was on foot when pillion riders fired a single bullet at his head from close range and fled.
The scholar was associated with prominent religious scholar Mufti Munibur Rehman, said the SSP.
