A senior activist of the banned Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan (SSP) was gunned down in a target killing on Sunday. Allauddin, 40, was the Lines Area Unit Incharge of the banned religious outfit, and had earlier worked for the Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LJ). Lest we forget, the two are pretty much the same outfit. Lashkar-e-Jhangvi does most of the generalized killing -- they've become the core of AQ-Pakistan -- while SSP specializes more in bumping off Shiites and pretending to be the political wing.
A source in the Criminal Investigation Department told Daily Times the deceased was currently engaged in reorganising the SSP in Karachi. The killing occurred early on Sunday, when three unidentified men on a motorcycle shot Allauddin seven times with a 9mm pistol. Following the incident, participants of Allauddin's funeral prayers started shooting guns in the air outside Imambargah-e-Ali Raza.Imambargahs are Shiite mosques.
Inspired by the firing, dozens of people belonging to Fiqa-e-Jafferia gathered on the road and started rioting by burning tyres and pelting stones on passing vehicles.
That'd be the Shiites defending themselves and mayheming.
Jamshed Town Superintendent of Police Javed Akbar Riaz said the SSP's rival members had claimed the SSP workers were targeting them and the imambargah. He said a case had been registered against several SSP leaders.