KARACHI: Unknown assailants gunned down a former worker of Muttahida Qaumi Movement in Liaquatabad on Friday.

Muhammad Aamir alias Bhura, 20, resident of house No 7/374 in Liaquatabad Block VII, was shot dead at a little distance from his residence by snipers riding an unidentified vehicle. Neighbours and passers-by took the body to Abbasi Shaheed Hospital.

Sources close to the family said the victim was recently released from jail after completing his five-year imprisonment. Police said he was a labourer at a plastic moulding factory and had dissociated from the party some time ago.

KILLED: Mateena Bano, a housewife in her mid-50s, was found murdered with her head smashed, in her residence in Buffer Zone. No further details were available.

The Gulzar-e-Hijri police found mutilated remains of an unknown victim lying on Super Highway near Burraq petrol pump. Police were of the opinion that the victim was murdered somewhere else and the killers threw the body on the highway, which was turned into pieces by passing vehicles. Aslam Pervez, who was injured in firing on Friday, died in Abbasi Shaheed Hospital.

The deceased, hailing from the NWFP, was standing near Nazimabad No 2 bus stop when accused Malik Shah, Ghalib Shah and their accomplices opened fire injuring him seriously. Police said the incident took place due to enmity.

An infant Nadir was killed in highly mysterious circumstances within Orangi Town police limits. According to hospital sources, mother of the one-year-old boy complained to the police that her enraged spouse threw the child on the ground.

Yasmin, a young girl from Mominabad police area, sustained bullet injuries. She was rushed to Abbasi Shaheed Hospital where doctors were trying to save her life.

ACCIDENTS: Nimra Hassan, 4, died on the spot after a speedy minibus (JE-6285) of route W-A ran her over while she was playing. The driver managed to escape leaving the vehicle. Police shifted the corpse to Abbasi Shaheed Hospital. An unknown man was crushed to death under an unidentified vehicle in Kalri police limits while he was crossing the road. The corpse was later shifted to Civil Hospital.

KARACHI: Unknown assailants gunned down an activist of Jaish-e-Muhammad (JM) and his son outside their house on Saturday.

Maulana Abdul Majeed a middle-aged activist of the militant group fighting in Held Kashmir, and his 11-year-old son Anas, a Hafiz-e-Qur'aan, were shot dead in North Nazimabad, Block G. The police, quoting eyewitnesses, said two people on a motorbike targeted them as they were getting out of their car outside their house.

The bullets pierced into their heads. Witnesses and passers-by transported them to Abbasi Shaheed Hospital. Family members and the JM leaders reached the hospital on information. A source told The News that army officials also reached the hospital.

They were later shifted to the JPMC where the father breathed his last while being treated and the son also died after a few minutes. "The father had sustained two bullets while the son died of a single shot in the head," said a senior JPMC doctor

The DIG Tariq Jamil was unaware about the incident when The News contacted him while the SSP Central, Syed Shaukat Ali Shah, said: "I have received information that Majeed was affiliated with Harkat-ul-Ansar. They were attacked by two riders of a motorbike."

The JM came into light after an Indian aircraft, carrying 200 passengers, was hijacked from New Delhi and landed in Afghanistan. The hijackers had demanded of the Vajpayee government to release JM leader Maulana Masood Azhar and following his release the hijackers let go all the passengers.

The city is already disturbed after the violence following Sunni Tehrik (ST) leader Salim Qadri's assassination on May 18. The ST leaders had blamed the JM and Sipah-e-Sahaba (SSP) for the killing of Salim Qadri. The SSP, however, denied the charges and alleged that its activist Arshad, found dead along with Salim Qadri and others, was kidnapped and killed. When contacted by The News, a JM leader Qari Mehmood, said: "Maulana Abdul Majeed was a district activist and was returning home from his shop in Paposh Nagar."