Prayer leader shot dead in Karachi

KARACHI: A prayer leader was killed after an unidentified armed man open fire at him at his mosque in New Karachi.

He was identified as 60-year-old Mir Bux, who hailed from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s (KP) Karak district.

Citing initial investigation, police said the murder appears to be a result of personal enmity.

His body was shifted to a nearby medical facility for medico-legal formalities.

The victim’s son said that his father was the imam of Jamia Masjid Muhammad who was martyred by unknown assailants during the Fajr call.
As soon as the incident was reported, the police rushed to the spot and collected evidence.

The statement of the victim’s father and son was taken which shows that the incident is a personal feud. The slain Pesh Imam belonged to Karak area of ​​Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Police handed over the body to the father and son after due process.

The police said they are investigating the murder from different angles with a hunt launched to arrest the culprit at the earliest.

In Feb this year, a prayer leader and two children were shot dead in Islamabad’s Barakahu area after unidentified men opened fire on them. The prayer leader was identified as Mufti Ikram while one of the children killed in the attack was his 13-year-old son and the other one was his student.