KARACHI: An orthopaedic surgeon was shot dead near the board office traffic intersection in Nazimabad on Wednesday afternoon, police said. They added that Dr Javed Shakoor, son of Abdul Shakoor, was the owner of M.O. Memon Hospital located in Husainabad and resident of Gulshan-i-Iqbal.
The police said that the 50-year-old doctor was heading to Nazimabad from the hospital in his car (AHQ-177) when unidentified men sprayed him with bullets at 1.15pm.
Nazimabad SHO Jehanzeb told Dawn that the victim suffered five bullet wounds in his chest and shoulder from the right side. “The victim was rushed to the nearby Abbasi Shaheed Hospital, where he was pronounced dead on arrival,” he said.
The police later collected seven spent bullet casings from the crime-scene, the SHO said, adding that the assailants used a 9mm pistol in the attack.
“It is not yet clear if the attackers were riding a motorcycle or travelling in a car,” the official said. Similarly, he said, the police were not certain about their number, as eyewitness had not shared any information with the police so far despite the fact that the attack was carried out on a main road in the presence of dozens of people.
The official said the family had not lodged the FIR, telling the police that they would do so after the burial of the victim.
The deputy inspector-general of the west zone of police in the city, Sultan Khawaja, said there seemed to be a sectarian motive behind the killing, but other possibilities could also not be ruled out at this stage.
Security guard, cashier killed
A security guard and a cashier were killed in the Pak Colony area on Wednesday over what police described as a property dispute.
The police said that the attackers did not deprive the victims of Rs900,000, which the latter had collected from different shops as outstanding dues.
An official at the Pak Colony police station said that Wazir Shah, the cashier of the pharmacy company in SITE, and the private guard, Murad Gul, were returning in a car after collecting payments from different shops when unidentified persons intercepted them near the Bismillah Hotel and sprayed them with bullets before fleeing.
The police official said that the victims suffered two bullets each in the chest and neck and died before they could he shifted to the hospital.
A 9mm pistol was used in the targeted killing, according to the investigators.
Liaquatabad SP Naveed Khwaja said initial investigations indicated that the killings were carried out over a property dispute.
Till the filing of this report, the FIR of the murder had not been registered.
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