AFAQ AHMED/Agencies
MIRPURKHAS - Gunmen shot dead a homoeopathic doctor from Ahmadi minority here, said police and members of the community on Tuesday.
His body was shifted to Rabwah (Faisalabad) for burial after post-mortem from Civil Hospital Mirpurkhas on Tuesday. The assailants stormed Mubashar Ahmad Khosa’s clinic late on Monday. “He was attending to patients at his clinic at Malhi Colony when two unidentified assailants came in and fired at him repeatedly before fleeing on a motorbike,” a statement by Jamaat Ahmadiyya Pakistan spokesman Salimuddin said. Zafarullah Dharejo, a senior local police official, added that a third attacker kept watch outside.
Khosa, who was a well-known doctor in the area, succumbed to injuries on the way to hospital.
Dharejo said, “The doctor got a text message half an hour before the murder asking him to come out of his clinic,” adding: “We are working on this clue.” Police registered a murder case against unidentified men and were investigating the case further. Khosa is survived by his wife, two sons and as many daughters.  It is alleged that authorities concerned continued to turn a blind eye over such insightful incidents against Ahmadi population.
The police officer said that in 2008, another Ahmadi doctor was gunned down in a similar way in the same city. In July, an angry mob torched an Ahmadi neighbourhood in Gujranwala, killing a woman and two girls after a local Ahmadi boy was accused of blasphemy.