In the latest bout of sectarian killings, Sunni cleric Maulana Masood Baig was gunned down by unknown assailants in the North Nazimabad's Hyderi area, on the outskirts of Karachi, on Wednesday.
Baig was the son-in-law of renowned cleric and head of Jamia Binoria, Mufti Naeem. He was shot while heading home from Karachi University by assailants riding a motorbike, dying at the spot, the Dawn reported.
On Saturday, another cleric, Allama Ali Akbar Kumaili, was gunned down and his two guards were wounded in the Azizabad area of the city, which prompted the Majlis Wahdat-e-Muslimeen Pakistan (MWM) party to demand that an army operation be launched in Karachi along the pattern of North Waziristan.