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A former Member of National Assembly of Pakistan Raza Ali Abidi has been gunned down outside his residence in Khayaban-i-Ghazi neighbourhood of the Defense Housing Authority, Karachi, Pakistan on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
I\u2019d no idea who Raza Ali Abidi of Pakistan was till I saw the news of his brutal murder. The police official said firing took place after the gate of Ali Raza Abidi\u2019 house had been opened. After launching investigation, police have acquired CCTV footage of the attack. The footage showed two men riding a motorcycle chasing Abidi and one of them spraying the bullets. <\/p>\n
The footage run by TV channels showed that a man who was riding pillion getting off the two-wheeler and running away after targeting. Raza was associated with the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) \u2013 a political outfit of Indian migrants in Pakistan. He had earlier contested election from Karachi against Prime Minister Imran Khan in the July 2018 general election. <\/p>\n
As expected Pakistan\u2019s Prime Minister Imran Khan expressed profound grief over the murder of the former lawmaker and expressed condolence to the bereaved family. \u00a0ANP leader Bushra Gohar termed Mr Abidi\u2019s death \u201ca huge loss\u201d and said that he \u201cwas one of the sanest politicians in Pakistan\u201d. <\/p>\n
\u201cShocked!!! Gone too soon…#RazaAliAbidi was one of the sanest politicians in #Pakistan – his death is a huge loss. Security failure has become an accepted norm. There will be no accountability-so continue with positive reporting as ordered by DGISPR.\u201d <\/p>\n
His name has confused me about another journalist and broadcasting giant of BBC Urdu \u2013 the old Raza Ali Abidi who was born in 1936 in undivided India. He had moved to Karachi with his family in 1950. He is best known for his radio documentaries and the finest among his works was \u2018Grand Trunk Road\u2019 or \u2018Jernaili Sadak\u2019 also known as \u2018Sher Shah Suri Road.\u2019 It was a bus travel travelogue from Peshawar to Calcutta.<\/p>\n
Though we have our own share of violence when we remember the brutal murder of Mahatma Gandhi by fanatic ideologue Nathuram Godsey but there is nothing compared to the string of high stake murders in Pakistan history.<\/p>\n
The founder of Pakistan Mohammed Ali Jinnah had died on the road without any immediate medical support a year after the creation of the new nation. In 1951, the first prime minister of Pakistan Liaquat Ali Khan was assassinated in Rawalpindi\u2019s Company Bagh while making a public speech. His assassin was immediately shot dead but the mystery is still unresolved who ordered the killing. <\/p>\n
Another Prime Minister Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto was murdered or executed in the fake judicial process by Gen Zia ul Haque. Bhutto was born on January 5, 1928, in Larkana, Sindh of undivided India. He was president of Pakistan 1971\u20131973 and prime minister 1973\u20131977. On April 4, 1979, he was got into the rope.<\/p>\n
Fifty years after the death of Liaquat Ali Khan, Benazir Bhutto \u2013 the daughter of Zulfiqar, wife of ex- President Asif Ali Zardari and herself ex-Prime Minister of Pakistan was assassinated in the same garden \u2013 Company Bagh.<\/p>\n
It was only yesterday that Pakistan\u2019s Prime Minister Imran Khan was claiming that <\/span>his government would make it sure that the minorities feel safe, protected and have equal rights in ‘New Pakistan’. “We will show the Modi government how to treat minorities…Even in India, people are saying that minorities are unsafe and not being treated as equal citizens.”<\/p>\n
I\u2019m not sure but the very name Raza Ali Abidi sounds a name of a minority Muslim community of Pakistan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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