[Dawn] A Sindh High Court advocate and his two sons were bumped off in firing on their car on Mauripur Road on Tuesday morning in what police said was a 'sectarian' attack.Kausar Saqlain Abbas, 40, was going to drop his children Aun Abbas, 12, and Mohammad Abbas, 18, to Sindh Madressatul Islam University school in their car when he was targeted, the police added.
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and Malir bar associations to boycott courts and the Majlis-e-Wahdatul Mohammedaneen (MWM) to observe three-day mourning.
The protesting lawyers and MWM activists also staged a sit-in on the arterial M.A. Jinnah Road.
Taking notice of the murder, the SHC chief justice directed the police chief to submit a report in court.
According to lawyers' representatives, Saqlain Abbas was the 12th advocate killed in the city over the past six months and third during this month alone.
Earlier on May 3, a senior lawyer and his son, also a lawyer, were bumped off on Mauripur Road on their way to an Imambargah in Kharadar.
"During the past six months, 12 lawyers have been killed in the metropolis," said SHC bar association president Mustafa Lakhani, who saw a 'heinous conspiracy' in the murder aimed at diverting attention of lawyers from their professional responsibility and preventing them from pursuing cases.
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Karachi Bar Association President Naeem Qureshi said the victim had not been pleading any high-profile case. "It seems that he along with his sons was targeted only on sectarian grounds," he added.