Pakistan: Ahmadi Muslim man shot dead in Nawabshah, Sindh

The victim, 38 years old Imtiaz Ahmad, was standing in front of a business he owned in Trunk Bazar when he was struck by a bullet to his head.

An Ahmadi man was murdered today in Nawabshah, a town 170 miles northeast of the Pakistani port city of Karachi in the Sindh province.

According to a statement issued via the micro-blogging website, Twitter, the press department of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in Pakistan said that the victim, 38 years old Imtiaz Ahmad, was standing in front of the business he owned in Trunk Bazar when he was struck by a bullet to his head.

Nawabshah, situated in Shaheed Benazir Abad District (so named after the murder of Benazir Bhutto, former Prime Minister of Pakistan) has a bloody history with numerous Ahmadī murders.

Although the cause of Imtiaz Ahmad’s murder has not been formally determined, the victim’s family has endured faith-based murders in the past.

Victim’s uncle, Seth Muhamad Yousaf was gunned down in Nawabshah because of his faith after the airing of a TV episode, Aalim Online, where an infamous hate preacher had facilitated issuance of a fatwa to murder Ahmadīs because they were apostates.

Seth Yousaf was the local Ahmadiyya community president when he was murdered in September 2008.

According to local reports, Seth Yousaf’s son, Asif Daud, was also targeted a few months ago but luckily he escaped the murder attempt.