Karachi, June 11: A former provincial assembly speaker was shot dead in the southern port city of Karachi today by two gunmen riding a motorcycle, police said. The attack occurred in broad daylight as the victim, Abdur Raziq Khan, was being driven through the city's business district, said Deputy Police Chief Tariq Jamil. His driver was wounded in the shooting. Jamil said the gunmen escaped and police had made no arrests. The motive for the attack was not immediately clear. Khan was the speaker of the assembly in Sindh, of which Karachi is the capital, in the early 1990s. At the time he was a member of the MQM, a political party that represents Urdu-speaking migrants from India.
He ran for the National Assembly in October 2001 as a candidate of the ruling PML-Q party of President Gen. Pervez Musharraf and Prime Minister Zafarullah Khan Jamali, but lost. Bureau Report