A senior Pakistani lawmaker was critically wounded on Tuesday in an assassination attempt when two bike-borne gunmen opened fire at the MQM leader’s vehicle killing his driver in the country’s commercial capital.
Rashid Godil, 54, was on his way home with his wife when armed men on two motorcycles attacked his vehicle and fired eight 9mm bullets after identifying the Muttahida leader.
<g data-gr-id="21">Godil’s</g> driver was killed and the Muttahida Qaumi Movement leader was critically wounded, said Abid Qaimkhani, a senior police officer.
<g data-gr-id="17">Godil</g> was rushed to a nearby hospital where he underwent surgery following which the he was put on <g data-gr-id="20">ventilator</g>, according to hospital sources. He suffered five bullets wounds on his chest, head and arm, they said.
The attack on <g data-gr-id="22">Godal</g> comes just two days after Punjab interior minister, Colonel (<g data-gr-id="23">retd</g>) Shuja Khanzada was killed in a bomb attack at his office in Attock.