Weapon used in Abidi’s murder was progressing used to kill bookie’s paramour

Abidi was laid to rest in DHA cemetery after his wake prayers were offering during Imambargah Yasrab on Wednesday.

Allama Hassan Zafar Naqvi led a wake prayers of a slain politician. MQM-P leaders including Dr Farooq Sattar among other politicians also attended a funeral.

According to a Counter Terrorism Department of a Sindh Police, debate research of a spent bullet casings found from a crime stage have matched a ammunition used in another murder in Liaquatabad on Dec 10.

On Wednesday evening, military purebred a case, series 540/18 underneath Sections 302/34 as good as Section 7 of a Anti-Terrorism Act, opposite unclear persons. The box was purebred on a censure of a victim’s father, Ikhlaq Abidi.

The match

CTD In-charge Raja Umer Khattab, lecture on a investigations so far, claimed that a compare would infer to be a good assistance in elucidate a box and divining a perpetrators. The arms used in Abidi’s murder was a .30 gimlet pistol, pronounced Khattab, adding that 5 spent casings were recovered from a crime scene. The casings were sent to a military debate laboratory, he said.

According to a initial formula from a laboratory, Khattab pronounced that a same arms was used in a murder of 23-year-old Ihtisham progressing this month. He combined that a formula forked to a probability that a same organisation was concerned in both incidents.

Ihtisham’s murder

Rao Shabbir, who is a obligatory SHO of Liaquatabad Police Station, told source that Ihtisham was a purported lover of an ex-wife of Irfan, who lived in a same neighbourhood. On a night of Dec 10, Ihtisham had reportedly brought Ifran’s ex-wife to his home, after that he was murdered.

Meanwhile, Irfan, who is a bookie and is allegedly dependent with a Muttahida Qaumi Movement-London, has mixed wives who live in opposite properties owned by him in Lyari, Khadda Market, DHA and other areas.

After Ihtisham’s murder, Irfan went into hidden and there was a probability that he had fled a country, pronounced SHO Shabbir.

In a video message, Irfan can be seen accusing Ihtisham of hidden his wife. He adds that Ihtisham had busted his family.

According to SHO Shabbir, Ihtisham’s family had filed a box with a military opposite unclear persons. He recalled, however, that a family had seemed wavering to hold some details, presumably due to some form of pressure.

SSP’s brief

Meanwhile, South SSP Pir Muhammad Shah, while lecture a media outward Abidi’s residence on Wednesday, pronounced that that a defunct had arrived home progressing than was his slight on a night of Dec 25. His family was roving abroad a subsequent day, so he had come home early to take them out for dinner.

The perpetrators had been following him to his residence and only as Abidi’s automobile stopped in front of his gate, one of a suspects non-stop glow during him.

The SSP pronounced that CCTV footage along a track taken by Abidi to his residence has been acquired, that will assistance them in a investigations.

Shah combined that they have also incarcerated Abidi’s guard, Qadeer, who, “instead of immediately retaliating to a fire, went inside a house”. The suspects had dismissed a shots after a ensure had non-stop a gate, he added.

Major clues

According to military sources arcane to a investigation, a perpetrators’ faces are manifest in a CCTV footage prisoner from Abidi’s home. The footage will be cross-checked with military annals to discern either a suspects had rapist records.

A comparison military official, vocalization on a condition of anonymity, pronounced that during slightest 4 suspects on dual motorcycles were concerned in a targeted attack. Two of a suspects carried out a attack, while dual others were on backup and recce duty.

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