 Gunmen killed a senior security officer for Pakistan People's Party (PPP) Co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari in Karachi on Tuesday, police and party officials said.
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Ejaz Durrani, a spokesman for Bilawal House, said unidentified gunmen opened fire on Khalid Shahenshah's vehicle outside his home in Khayaban-e-Bukhari in Defence Housing Authority (DHA) Phase VIII. Doctors at the nearby Ziauddin Hospital in Clifton were unable to save him, Durrani said.
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Karachi police chief Khalid Mahmood confirmed the incident. Shahenshah, a long-time PPP activist, was among a coterie of party security guards who failed to prevent the murder of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto in a gun-and-bomb attack in Rawalpindi on December 27, 2007.
According to details, Shahenshah, 45, had arrived at his house at around 2:40pm after attending a meeting at Bilawal House, when assailants attacked his vehicle -- a Toyota double cabin -- shooting him six times in the back. Shahenshah was rushed to hospital where he later died.
His body was taken to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre for legal formalities before being moved to Bilawal House.
The police have found a white Suzuki Mehran vehicle with fake registration plates near Sultan Masjid, Clifton Town Superintendent of Police Azad Khan said. The police are looking for the vehicle's owner, Khan said, adding the vehicle might have been used in the attack. Senior officials of the Sindh police inspected the scene. The investigators found 39 empty shells at the site. The officials believe that the assailants fired for two to three minutes and used an SMG rifle, .222 rifle and 9mm pistols. |