Amjad Sabri: Pakistani Sufi singer shot dead in Karachi
Amjad Sabri: Pakistani Sufi singer shot dead in Karachi Outpouring of grief across Pakistan as famed musician Amjad Sabri is killed in Taliban gun attack on car One of Pakistan ’s most famous and respected musicians, celebrated for devotional songs from a centuries-old mystic tradition, has been shot dead by Taliban gunmen in Karachi. Amjad Sabri , 45, was shot by two men on a motorbike as he drove through a congested area of the port city on Wednesday, Allah Dino Khawaja, the regional police chief, told Reuters. A relative travelling with the musician was injured but survived. A spokesman for the Pakistani Taliban, Qari Saifullah Mehsud, claimed responsibility for the killing and said Sabri was targeted because the group considered his music blasphemous, local media reported . The attack happened a day after a homeopathic doctor from the Ahmadi minority was killed in the same city, and two days after masked men seized the son of a top provincial judge, fuelling co...