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Summary Two lawyers, associated with the PML-N, were gunned down on Ibn Sina Road in Karachi.
Fifty-year-old Fahim Riaz Siddiqi and 45-year-old Saleem Bhatti, both associated with the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz, were returning home in a car from work when they were intercepted on Ibn Sina Road near Sharea Faisal.While the police said they had not found any eyewitness who could share information about the deadly assault, they believed the job was done by armed men riding a motorbike.“The car came under intense firing as it was about to appear on Sharea Faisal and went out of the driver’s control,” said a senior police official.The killings left the legal fraternity aghast and lawyers announced a strike in Malir and city courts.Siddiqi, a resident of Liaquat Square in Malir, was the chief organiser of the PML-N Lawyers Forum in Sindh and Bhatti, a resident of PECHS, was vice president of the same body.Additional IG Saud Mirza visited the crime scene and said that the lawyers were continuously targeted by the militants. He said that it was the sixth incident in two and a half months in which lawyers were targeted.Meanwhile, six other people were shot dead in incidents of valance in Purani Sabzimandi, Punjab Chorangi, New Karachi, Orangi Town and Nagin Chirangi.
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