Prominent Pak cleric shot dead

Karachi, October 11

A prominent Pakistani Sunni Muslim cleric was shot dead along with his driver by unidentified assailants in Karachi, police said on Sunday.

Maulana Dr Adil Khan, head of Karachi’s Jamia Farooqia seminary, was attacked in a market on Saturday evening, they said.

According to a police official, as the car carrying Khan stopped near a shopping centre in Shah Faisal Colony to purchase sweets, armed pillion riders opened indiscriminate fire on the car and fled. He was the son of late prominent scholar Maulana Saleemullah Khan, who founded the Jamia Farooqia. PM Imran Khan and President Arif Alvi condemned the assassination.

Hindu temple vandalised

A Hindu temple has been vandalised by a person in Pakistan's southeast Sindh province, according to the police. One person has been arrested and a case registered in connection with the incident which took place on Saturday, The Express Tribune reported.

According to the police, complainant Ashok Kumar alleged that suspect Muhammad Ismail damaged the idols kept in the makeshift temple in the remote Badin district and fled. The police said the suspect was arrested within a few hours. — PTI

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