Pakistan: Targeted attack against Ahamdis leave one dead, two injured in Karachi

Ahmadiyya Times

A man belonging to Ahmadiyya community was shot dead and his son and a companion were wounded in a targeted attack in Soldier Bazaar locality. Police said the victims were identified as Hamid Sami, 45, his eighteen-year-old son, Osama and a companion, Salman Zaman, 48. The victims were shot multiple times and were taken to Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre where doctors pronounced Sami as dead. Police said Sami and his companion, Zaman, used to work at a private engineering firm near Tibbat Centre on M.A. Jinnah Road as account consultants and the incident took place when they were returning to their homes in a car in Gulshan-e-Iqbal area. They changed their way to home as protest was ongoing at M.A. Jinnah road and turned their car towards narrow streets of Soldier Bazaar, where armed men targeted them. Senior official Masood Ahmad of Ahmadiyya community strongly condemned the incident and demanded arrest of culprits, adding that it seemed the terrorists had now started killings their community members. He urged the government and law enforcers to take strict action to avoid such incidents in future. No case was registered till filling of this report.