Renowned Qawwal Amjad Farid Sabri was shot dead in Karachi’s Liaqatabad area in broad daylight on Wednesday afternoon, two days after masked men kidnapped the son of Sindh province’s top judge from outside a supermarket in the posh Clifton area.Police officials said two gunmen shot at the windscreen of Sabri’s car as it drove off a bridge in the congested Liaquatabad area of the city. Sabri’s relative, Saleem Sabri, who was travelling with him, was also killed in the attack.Sabri, who was on his way to a studio for a Ramzan transmission, was rushed to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital, where he was pronounced dead on arrival.Qari Saifullah of the banned Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) Hakeemullah Mehsud group claimed responsibility for the attack, saying they had killed Sabri ‘for blasphemy’.

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