A teacher of the Persian language at the Khana-e-Farhang Iran [Iranian Cultural Centre] was shot martyred on Monday along with his elder brother militants of Sipah-e-Sahabah in Nazimabad.
The two Shia community members, 30-year-old Basheer Muhammadi and 32-year-old Nazeer Muhammadi, were on their way to work when armed assailants on a motorcycle shot them multiple times with 9mm pistols, said Gulbahar SHO Mohsin Ali. The victims succumbed to their injuries before the ambulance could take them to Abbasi Shaheed Hospital.
Muhammad Shifa, a security officer at the cultural centre of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Karachi, said that Basheer Muhammadi had been associated with the Khana-e-Farhang for the past six years as a Persian teacher and was then promoted as the incharge of language instruction.
“He was a very simple man and somebody who was very genuine in his conduct,” said Shifa. “I have no idea why anyone would do this to him.” The deceased hailed from the Skardu district, one of the seven districts of the Gilgit-Baltistan area, and were residing at the Mahnoor Apartments in Nazimabad No. 2. The elder of the two brothers, Nazeer Muhammadi, was privately engaged in the medical supply business, added the police.
The bodies of the deceased were sent to Skardu, after funeral prayers were offered at the Babul Ilm mosque in North Nazimabad.
Majlis-e-Wahdat-e-Muslimeen secretary-general Allama Raja Nasir Abbas Jafari criticised the federal and the provincial governments for what he termed as ‘their complete failure’ to control terrorist attacks and target killings of the Shia community. “The deplorable incidents in Taftan and Karachi are proof that the respective governments have failed to shoulder their constitutional obligations.”
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