Amjad Sabri shot dead in Karachi
Amjad Sabri shot and dead in Karachi KARACHI: Renowned qawwal Amjad Sabri, 45, was shot dead in Karachi on Wednesday, two days after masked men kidnapped the son of a top provincial judge. Officials said two gunmen shot at the windscreen of Sabri’s car as it drove off a bridge in the congested Liaquatabad area of the city, and a relative, Saleem Sabri, travelling with him was also injured. “Two attackers riding a motorcycle intercepted his car and targeted Amjad Sabri, who was driving,” Sindh police chief Allah Dino Khawaja told Reuters . Sabri, who was on his way to his way to a studio for Ramazan transmission, was rushed to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital, where he was pronounced dead on arrival. “Amjad Sabri expired on the way to the hospital,” police surgeon Rohina Hasan said. “He was shot three times.” “It was a targeted killing and an act of terrorism,” Muqaddas Haider, another senior police officer said, without naming possible suspects. Liaquatabad SHO wa