 Abdullah Mujahid, a founding member of religious group Jamaatud Dawa (JD) and close associate of its chief Hafiz Saeed, was shot and killed by a robber in Taj Bagh on Saturday morning. The deceasedÂ’s family and lawyer lodged a complaint of murder during robbery with the police, while JD activists claimed that the incident was an act of terrorism. According to Superintendent of Police Ahsan Younas, Mujahid was returning from morning prayers at a mosque in Taj Bagh when a man named Safdar tried to stop his car. The two then traded fire, Safdar hitting Mujahid in the face, killing him, and Mujahid hitting Safdar in the belly. Police arrived at the scene and arrested Safdar as he tried to flee. He is in critical condition in hospital. During interrogation, police found that he was a robber and recovered a stolen motorcycle, cell phones, credit cards and an unlicensed pistol from him.
Police registered a first information report against Safdar for the homicide, and handed over Mujahid’s body to the family after autopsy. He was later buried in a local graveyard in Mustafabad, where funeral prayers were led by Hafiz Saeed. However, JD activists released a statement saying three “terrorists” had killed Mujahid. They said Mujahid’s friends Farooq, a passenger in the car, and Idrees and Abdur Rehman, who were following on a motorbike, were at the scene and saw three attackers. They claimed that Safdar had been shot accidentally by one of his accomplices and not by Mujahid.
A police officer investigating the case dismissed their claim that there were three attackers. He said Safdar came in front of the car to stop it, brandishing a gun.
Mujahid saw the gun and shot first, hitting Safdar in the belly.
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Safdar responded by shooting Mujahid in the jaw, causing his instant death.
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The investigator said if Safdar had fired first, Mujahid could not have shot back. He said police found only two empty shells at the crime scene and matched them to the weapons, both of which were 0.30 calibre. After Mujahid was shot, his car crashed into a tree about 100 yards away, the policeman said, adding that Mujahid was alone in the car.
| Wasn't this on "Walker, Texas Ranger" a couple weeks ago? |
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