{"id":31069,"date":"2012-12-25T16:26:35","date_gmt":"2012-12-25T14:26:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=31069"},"modified":"2012-12-25T16:26:35","modified_gmt":"2012-12-25T14:26:35","slug":"sunni-leader-targeted-in-pakistan-6-killed-31069","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/sunni-leader-targeted-in-pakistan-6-killed-31069\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunni leader targeted in Pakistan, 6 killed"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_31070\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-31070\" style=\"width: 280px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-31070\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Karachi-Pakistan-Nationalturk-25-280x168.jpg\" alt=\"Rescue workers carrying body in violence-hit Karachi: File pic\" width=\"280\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Karachi-Pakistan-Nationalturk-25-280x168.jpg 280w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Karachi-Pakistan-Nationalturk-25.jpg 468w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 280px) 100vw, 280px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-31070\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rescue workers carrying body in violence-hit Karachi: File pic<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h1>A Sunni leader was targeted by assailants in Pakistan\u2019s Karachi city on Tuesday, killing six persons.<\/h1>\n<p>Karachi, Dec 25\/Nationalturk- A Sunni leader was targeted by unidentified assailants in Pakistan\u2019s commercial capital Karachi on Tuesday, killing six persons including four policemen and his security guard.<\/p>\n<p>Police said Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat (ASWJ) leader Maulana Aurangzeb Farooqui was attacked by unknown gunmen outside a madrassah in Gulshan-e-Iqbal area of Karachi this afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFarooqui was hit in the leg by a bullet and was immediately rushed to hospital. The doctors attending on him have termed his condition as \u2018not critical\u2019,\u201d police officials said.<\/p>\n<p>They said the attack left six persons including four police men and a security guard of Farooqui dead.<\/p>\n<p>Karachi police chief Iqbal Mehmood said initial investigations have indicated that the gunmen were on a motorcycle and fired indiscriminately on Farooqui\u2019s cavalcade.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan\u2019s newspaper Express Tribune quoted ASWJ spokesperson Akbar Saeed as saying that Farooqui was now out of danger after being treated at the Liaquat National hospital.<\/p>\n<p>He urged the workers and supporters to remain calm and not stage violent protests.<\/p>\n<h2>Tension grips Karachi<\/h2>\n<p>As the news spread that Farooqui\u2019s has been targeted, the tension gripped major part of Karachi. The shopkeepers and businessmen pulled shutters of their establishments in several areas including Nagan Chowrangi, Abul Hasan Isphahani Road, Stadium Road, Guru Mandir and Patel Para.<\/p>\n<p>Youth took to roads at several places and pelted stones on the vehicles. Two cars were set ablaze by the irate mob near Rizvia Colony and Waterpump areas in Karachi.<\/p>\n<p>After the attack, the security apparatus across Karachi has been beefed up.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Write your comments and thoughts below<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Faiz Ahmad \/ NationalTurk Pakistan News<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!-- Error, Advert is not available at this time due to schedule\/geolocation restrictions! -->\n<h1><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Sunni leader was targeted by assailants in Pakistan\u2019s Karachi city on Tuesday, killing six persons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,80,63,1,85,14],"tags":[42078,42089,42075,42079,42095,42083,41138,42076,42082,14166,42084,42088,42086,11703,42090,42081,42080,42087,42085,636,41887,42094,42077,42092,42093,42091],"class_list":["post-31069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia","category-breaking-news","category-daily","category-general","category-media-news","category-world","tag-ahle-sunnat-wal-jamaat","tag-akbar-saeed","tag-assailants","tag-aswj","tag-beefed-up","tag-bullet","tag-businessmen","tag-commercial-capital","tag-gulshan-e-iqbal","tag-gunmen","tag-hospital-doctors","tag-indiscriminately","tag-iqbal-mehmood","tag-karachi","tag-liaquat-national-hospital","tag-madrassah","tag-maulana-aurangzeb-farooqui","tag-motorcycle","tag-not-critical","tag-pakistan","tag-policemen","tag-security-apparatus","tag-security-guard","tag-shopkeepers","tag-shutters-stone-pelting","tag-tension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31069\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}