Summary ASWJ protestors staged sit-in at Shahra-e-Faisal.
KARACHI (Web Desk) - The Ahle Sunnat Waljamaat (ASWJ) ended protest on Shahra-e-Faisal in Karachi after negotiations with the police.
ASWJ members were protesting to press authorities for better security measures.
ASWJ spokesperson Maulana Akbar Saeed said that they want the authorities to bring killers of Karachi chapter spokesperson Maulana Akbar Saeed Farooqi to justice.
He added that the Inspector General has assured them that he is willing to listen to their demands and that if their demands were not met, they would return to protest again on Tuesday.
On Sunday evening, unknown assailants gunned down Maulana Akbar Saeed Farooqi, spokesperson for Ahle-i-Sunnat Wa-al-Jamat (ASWJ) near Safari Park area of Karachi.
The victim was returning after participating in a rally at Lasbela Chowk when two motorcycle riding gunmen opened fire on him. Maulana Farooqi received two bullets in head and was immediately shifted to Liaquat National Hospital in critical condition where he succumbed to his injuries.
A bloody wave of killings and kidnappings has hit Karachi, a sprawling metropolis of 18 million people on the Arabian Sea and Pakistan s economic heart.
Bloody gang wars fed by ethnic and political bitterness, drugs and the Taliban, have created a culture of impunity, and the past two years have seen record death tolls.
In the first six months of 2013, 1,726 people were killed in Karachi compared with a previous high of 1,215 in the same period last year, according to the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan.
