Shia cleric shot dead in target killing.

KARACHI -- Unknown gunmen shot dead a Shia leader in an incident of target killing here in the remits of Ferozabad police station on Tuesday.

Police said that the Muhammad Ali Shah, 41, on his way to somewhere in car when gunmen ridding on a motorbike targeted him near Noorani Kabab. Gunmen managed to flee while victim rushed to the Jinnah postgraduate Medical Center (JPMC) where doctors pronounced him dead. Police said that Shah used to work in Karachi Development Authority and also associated with Shia Ulema Council and Majlis-e-Wahdat-e-Muslimeen. Different Shia organisation condemned the target killing incident and demanded authorities to arrest the culprits involved in the killing of Muhammad Ali Shah.

It's worth mentioning here that the intermittent incidents of sectarian killing continue in the city and it was forth major sectarian attack in the current month. On January 3rd, gunmen shot dead a Shia activist Fida Hussain in Zaman Town, Korangi while on January 9th, an activist of Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamat namely Umar shot dead by unknown assailants in Korangi while two ASWJ workers were wounded in an armed attack in Sohrab Goth locality on Sunday.

BODY FOUND

Police found a gunny bag shot dead body of a man from the remits of Korangi Industrial area. Police rushed to the spot and shifted the body to the hospital for autopsy and later shifted to the morgue for identification. Police said that the assailants kept the victim into custody and subjected to torture before shot him to death while throwing his shot dead body at an abandon place.

Meanwhile, Police investigators claim to have made headway into the investigations of the...