KARACHI, Pakistan (Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - A Shiite doctor was killed in Buffer Zone in Karachi, police said, suspecting that motive for the murder could be sectarian.Taimuria SHO Ejaz Lodhi said Dr Asif Hussain Zaidi arrived in a car at his clinic in Sector 15-A-1 of Buffer Zone and was walking towards his clinic after parking the car when two armed pillion-riders, who were already waiting for him there, fired at him and fled.The wounded doctor was taken to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital where doctors pronounced him dead on arrival.“The murder appeared to be an outcome of sectarianism,” opined Central SSP Amir Farooqui.Shia parties and leaders have condemned the targeted murder of another Shia professional. They said that surge in the terrorist attacks on Shiites proved that the PMLN government lacked any concrete anti-terrorism policy. They demanded that targeted military operation be launched to eliminate the terrorists./129
16 January 2014 - 20:30
News ID: 497754
A Shiite doctor was killed in Buffer Zone in Karachi, police said, suspecting that motive for the murder could be sectarian.