Senior Sunni muslim cleric killed in Karachi

Gunmen riding in two cars and a motorcycle opened gun fire on a pick up truck carrying a senior Sunni Muslim cleric in the violence-prone Pakistani city of Karachi today, killing him and wounding four other people, police said.

The cleric – Mufti Nizamuddin Shamzai – died of gunshot wounds in a nearby hospital. He was attacked while driving to an Islamic seminary that he headed in an eastern Karachi neighbourhood, said Fayyaz Qureshi, a Karachi police official.