Karachi, April 11: The menace of target killings continued unabated in Pakistan’s financial hub, with seven more deaths in the last 24 hours bringing the number of such victims to 260 in three months.
A report of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) said a total of 260 people have been shot dead or killed in target killings in Karachi since the start of this year.
Tragically, 169 of those killed are said to have had no political affiliation while 91 were identified as activists of political or religious parties.
“The assumption that target killings are being carried out because of enmities between the leading political forces in the city appears to be negated by these latest figures,” a HRCP official said.
-Agencies