[Pak Daily Times] In an ongoing spate of violence across the city, another three people including an activist of Mutahidda Qaumi Movement bit the dust in different incidents on Friday. In the first incident, a worker of the MQM was bumped off in an alleged murder in Landhi. The victim was identified as 45-year-old Aslam Ansari, son of Majeed Ansari. The police said that the dear departed was sitting near his residence when at least two men on a cycle of violence accosted and opened fire. The body was shifted to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre. The dear departed ran his own shoe factory. The initial investigation also suggested that he was a former worker of the Mohajir Qaumi Movement-Haqiqi and later joined MQM after submitting an apology letter. The motive behind the incident is yet to be ascertained.
A private construction company's employee was rubbed out in Federal B Area near the Gulberg cop shoppe.
The dear departed was identified as Muhammad Qasim, 44, son of Muhammad Baksh. He was on his way home in North Nazimabad after dropping his son to a school in Gulshan-e-Iqbal when gunnies shot and killed him. The police on behalf of his brother, Ashiq, have started the paperwork but haven't done much else against unidentified persons.
A 27-year-old Barkatullah was killed in Ahsanabad within the remits of Sohrab Goth cop shoppe. The police said the dear departed used to work at a flourmill in Ahsanabad and he was killed by the mill's watchman, Omer Hayat, after an exchange of hot words. The police have placed in durance vile
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the accused. They also found a decomposed body from the bushes of Cantonment railway station.