03-05-2013, 11:33 AM
KARACHI: An candidate for the upcoming elections belonging to the Awami National Party (ANP) was killed on friday in Karachi's Bilal colony area in Korangi, DawnNews reported.
The candidate, Sadiq Zaman Khattak, was contesting elections from Karachi's NA-254 constituency and was shot to death by unknown gunmen near a mosque.
Moreover five more persons, including two children were also injured in the attack.
Fear and panic gripped the area and markets and businesses in the vicinity closed down after the incident.
In another incident a worker of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) was killed and two other persons were injured in a gunfiring incident in Paposh area of Karachi.
The candidate, Sadiq Zaman Khattak, was contesting elections from Karachi's NA-254 constituency and was shot to death by unknown gunmen near a mosque.
Moreover five more persons, including two children were also injured in the attack.
Fear and panic gripped the area and markets and businesses in the vicinity closed down after the incident.
In another incident a worker of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) was killed and two other persons were injured in a gunfiring incident in Paposh area of Karachi.
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"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass