{"id":15442,"date":"2025-08-01T12:04:02","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T12:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=15442"},"modified":"2025-08-01T12:04:02","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T12:04:02","slug":"senior-lawyer-khawaja-shamsul-islam-shot-dead-in-karachi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=15442","title":{"rendered":"Senior lawyer Khawaja Shamsul Islam shot dead in Karachi"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Senior lawyer Khawaja Shamsul Islam was shot dead\u00a0in Karachi\u2019s Defence area on Friday, police said.<\/p>\n<p>The lawyer\u2019s son, Daniyal, was also injured in the attack and was shifted to a hospital along with his father, who succumbed to his injuries, police confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>The incident took place at a mosque in DHA Phase VI where\u00a0Islam had gone to attend the funeral prayers of trader Muzzammil Paracha.<\/p>\n<p>Unidentified gunmen opened fire during the funeral, critically injuring both father and son, said police, adding that further probe is underway.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Taking notice of the murder,\u00a0Sindh Home Minister Ziaul Hassan Lanjar directed\u00a0SSP South to submit a detailed report on the initial police action taken following the incident.<\/p>\n<p>He further instructed police teams to be mobilized for the immediate arrest of the\u00a0suspects involved in the shooting and sought minute to minute updates.\u00a0<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senior lawyer Khawaja Shamsul Islam was shot dead\u00a0in Karachi\u2019s Defence area on Friday, police said. The lawyer\u2019s son, Daniyal, was also injured in the attack and was shifted to a hospital along with his father, who succumbed to his injuries, police confirmed. The incident took place at a mosque in DHA Phase VI where\u00a0Islam had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15442\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}