Both victims sustained multiple bullet wounds and were taken to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital where doctors pronounced them dead.
Source/Credit: Daily Dawn | Pakistan
By Daily Dawn | August 21, 2013
KARACHI, Aug 21: Seven people, including a Customs official who was also a member of the Ahmadiyya community, were gunned down in targeted attacks in the city on Wednesday, police said.
They said that two armed motorcyclists targeted Zahoor Ahmed Kayani, 46, outside his home in Mujahid Colony in Orangi Town. The attackers also killed his neighbour and friend Noorul Wahid, a non-Ahmadi, when he tried to save him.
Both victims sustained multiple bullet wounds and were taken to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital where doctors pronounced them dead.
Mominabad SHO Ahmed Butt suspected personal enmity behind the murder. Mr Kayani was an employee of the Customs and father of seven, he said.
However, a spokesperson for the Anjuman-i-Ahmadiyya Pakistan (AAP) said in a statement that Mr Kayani was a member of the party and had become a victim of ‘religious hatred’. His friend was killed because he tried to resist the assailants, he added.
The AAP members were being targeted in Karachi but the government had failed to curb such killings, although it was the state’s responsibility to provide protection to all its citizens irrespective of their faith, he said.
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