Sipah-i-Sahaba men arrested for killing Syed Badr Abbas Abidi and his friend in Khanewal
01-7-1997
KHANEWAL, July 1: District president of the Tehrik-i-Jafaria Pakistan (TJP) and a friend
were killed while a shopkeeper was injured by two gunmen here on Tuesday morning.
The local Shia leader, Syed Badr Abbas Abidi, had been to a medical store owned by a
friend, Mohammad Naeem, when two motorcyclists arrived there, shot them and fled. Allah
Ditta, the owner of an adjacent shop, was also injured by stray bullets. All three were rushed
to the DHQ Hospital, Khanewal, where the Shia leader and his friend died.
After the incident, all the local markets and trade centres were closed by the traders in protest
against the increasing terrorism in Khanewal. Later, city police arrested seven suspects and
workers of the Sipah-i-Sahaba Pakistan. Sources revealed that the SSP activists, including
their city chief, Maulana Mohammad Abbas Akhtar, and Maulana Abdul Karim, had been
arrested from various mosques situated in the Locoshed, Jaswantnagar, and Grain Market.