Mureed Abbas Murder: Police forms five-member committee for probe
Police officials said that the dispute was of Rs200 million.
KARACHI (Dunya News) – Police on Wednesday formed a five-member committee to probe into the murder of three persons including private television channel anchorperson Mureed Abbas who had been assassinated in Karachi’s Defense area on Tuesday night.
The committee will be headed by Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Tariq Dharejo and comprise of SSP South, SSP Clifton, SHO Darakhshan and SIU Darakshan.
According to initial investigation, police officials said that the dispute was of Rs200 million, adding that accused Atif Zaman had a business of tyre import. The officials said that the case would be taken to logical end in 24 hours.
On the other hand, the body of the deceased anchorperson has been shifted to Islamabad from Karachi. His body has been received by his brother at the airport after which it was transported to his native city Mianwali.
On Tuesday, Mureed Abbas and his friend were gunned down in Karachi. Abbas, an anchorman working at the private television channel in Karachi, was allegedly shot by his business partner Atif Zaman, who also tried to commit suicide by shooting himself. He was later admitted to a local hospital with critical injuries, according to Karachi police. Abbas’s friend Khizar Hayat was also shot on the spot and later succumbed to injuries in hospital.
Police officials said, citing initial details, that Abbas was killed during a fight over a personal dispute over some business investment which went wrong.
Initial investigations suggested that the accused Zaman had to pay back a debt to the TV news anchor. It is also believed that the alleged killer had threatened him with dire consequences.
Zaman had called the victim to a café in a posh area of Defence in Karachi and gunned down Abbas and his friend.
The anchorman’s wife Zara Abbas claimed that the accused Zaman had called her husband at 8pm to collect Rs5 million owed to him. “We had invested our money in his business and he [Zaman] wasn’t giving it back to us and others, he would always make excuses,” she said.
