Cleric killed in Karachi
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Saturday 09 July 2005 8:51 AM GMT 

  
Shamsuddin was director of the al-Hanafi Islamic science school  


Armed men have killed a Sunni Muslim cleric in the Pakistani city of 
Karachi in what police say appeared to be a sectarian attack. 



The bullet-riddled body of the cleric, identified as Mufti 
Shamsuddin, 65, was found on Saturday on a street in the poor Orangi 
district, said area police officer Rasheed Khan. 

Shamsuddin was director of a well-known al-Hanafi Islamic science 
school. 

"This appears to be an incident of a targeted killing," Khan said. No 
claim of responsibility had been made, he said. 

Thousands of people have been killed in tit-for-tat attacks by rival 
Sunni and Shia Muslim fighters over the past 15 years. More than 100 
people have been killed in the past year. 

Two Sunni clerics were killed last month when attackers on 
motorcycles opened fire on their van in another part of Karachi. 

Most of Pakistan's predominantly Muslim population of 150 million are 
Sunni; about 15% are Shia. 

Another attack

In what appeared to be another sectarian attack, a suspected Sunni 
fighter was shot dead days after he was released from jail in the 
central Punjab province, police said. 

Hafiz Hidayatullah Haideri had been in jail after being charged with 
involvement in an attack on a Shia mosque six years ago. 

He was released on bail a week ago and on Friday had gone for a court 
appearance when he disappeared. He was found shot dead on a road, 
police in the town of Muzaffargarh said.


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