Ali Raza Abidi, former MQM-P MNA shot dead in target killing at Karachi

KARACHI: Ali Raza Abidi, former MQM-P MNA was shot dead in target killing at Karachi while entering his home on Tuesday.

The shooting incident took place outside the residence of the Ali Raza Abidi in Khayaban-e-Ghazi neighbourhood of Defense Housing Authority (DHA).

The unknown assailants two in numbers were riding a motorbike shot Abidi as soon as he disembarked from his vehicle outside his residence, as can be seen in the CCTV footage of the location obtained by media.

Ali Raza Abidi was immediately shifted to ‘PNS Shifa Hospital’ in critical condition. He, however, succumbed to his wounds at the hospital.

Doctors conducted post-mortem on the deceased’s body. According to the initial report, Abidi sustained four bullets in neck, arm and chest.

Heavy contingents of police and Rangers reached the residence of the former MNA and placed security cordons there. The law enforcers were collecting circumstantial evidence from the scene.

Abidi’s death comes days after two Pak Sarzameen Party (PSP) workers were gunned down in the city’s Usmania Society locality.

Earlier this month, six people were wounded when a low-intensity blast hit an MQM-Pakistan Milad gathering in Gulistan-e-Johar.

Chief Minister Sindh Murad Ali Shah grieved deterioration in the city’s law and order situation. He directed the inspector general (IG) Sindh to constitute a special team and arrest the perpetrators.