Pakistan: Ahmadi man shot dead in Orangi, Karachi

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When some people tried to rescue him, the fleeing assailants opened indiscriminate fire wounding three teenage boys.

Killed for his faith: Bashir Kiani

Ahmadiyya Times | News Watch | Int'l Desk
Source/Credit: Daily Dawn | Pakistan
By Dawn Staff Reporter | November 2, 2103

KARACHI, Nov 1: In less than three months, armed assailants shot dead a third member of an Ahmadi family in an Orangi Town locality on Friday.

Police said that two armed motorcyclists targeted Bashir Kiani, 60, in Khyber Colony in Orangi Town’s Sector 4-F. When some people tried to rescue him, the fleeing assailants opened indiscriminate fire wounding three teenage boys.

Mominabad SHO Ahmed Butt said besides Mr Kiani, the three teenagers — Awais Ahmed, 18, Asad Khan, 18, and Mohammed Amin, 14 — sustained bullet wounds and were shifted to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital.

Doctors said that victim Kiani suffered three bullet wounds and died.

While the area SHO claimed that the murder was an outcome of a ‘robbery bid’, a spokesperson for the Jamaat-i-Ahmadiyya said that the victim was targeted on account of his faith.

The spokesperson said that he was on his way to a place of worship*, ‘Bait-ul-Hamd’, when he was targeted.

He said that Zahoor Ahmed and Ejaz Ahmed, the son-in-law and son of the victim, were also killed on Aug 21 and Sept 18 in Orangi Town, respectively.



* -  [Ahmadiyya Times note] - In Pakistan law does not allow Ahmadis to call their mosques as mosques because, it is claimed, it hurts Islamist's feelings. Fearing clerics' wrath and legal action, most newspapers opts to use the term "place of worship".


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