Sectarian violence kills 6 in Pakistan
A Sunni Muslim scholar was killed and his cleric father was wounded when gunmen ambushed their car in the southern city of Karachi while five others died in suspected sectarian violence elsewhere in Pakistan, police said yesterday.
Mufti Mohammad Ahmed Madani, a teacher at a local religious school, was wounded when assailants riding a motorbike sprayed his car with bullets late Sunday, city police chief Tariq Jamil said.
His son Maulana Mohammad Abdullah died in the attack, the officer said.
For all latest news, follow The Daily Star's Google News channel. Madani, a former head of the Karachi chapter of a banned radical Sunni Muslim group, Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan (SSP), suffered bullets wounds to his shoulder. His condition was not serious, police said.
"It was a sectarian attack," former SSP official Shafiqur Rehman, said, blaming militants from the minority Shia community.
Gunmen shot dead a Shia activist and injured his wife in the southwestern city of Quetta on Monday, police said.
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