Security forces stand alert to avert any untoward incident during an operation in Karachi.
Heavily-armed gunmen have shot and killed a senior police officer in the violence-wracked southern port city of Karachi, security sources say.
Local officials said Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Mumtaz Ali Shah was killed on Saturday morning while driving to work near the volatile city’s Malir Cant area.
Security sources noted that the attackers managed to flee the scene before the police forces cordoned off the area.
No group has claimed responsibility for the latest attack, but police officials lay the blame on pro-Taliban militants or criminal gangs, who have carried out similar assaults in the past.
This comes days after unknown armed men gunned down a senior Pakistani navy officer in the volatile city in early September.
Pakistani security forces and law enforcement agencies say they have rounded up at least 30 terror suspects across the troubled city. Police also seized arms and ammunition, including explosives, machine guns and grenades.
Sectarian, political and ethnic violence in Karachi has killed hundreds of people in Pakistan’s main commercial hub so far this year.
The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has said in a recent report that targeted attacks claimed the lives of nearly 1,800 people across the troubled city in the first six months of this year.
The city is home to numerous ethnic groups and has been hit by clashes between rival ethnic and political factions in the past two decades.
A top Pakistani court has also recently ordered the government law enforcement agencies to take immediate action against pro-Taliban militants and criminal gangs in the country’s largest city.
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