SIALKOT Nov 3 1997: Two Shias were killed on Monday in an apparent sectarian attack by unidentified gunmen in Sialkot, local police said. The victims, who were brothers, were sitting in their drug store when two men riding a motor bike sprayed them with bullets and fled the scene, they said.

A police official in Sialkot said that it was apparently a sectarian incident. The deceased, who were identified as Aulad Hussain Shah and Baqar Hussain Naqvi, were taken in critical condition to a hospital, where they died.

SIALKOT: Sectarian killing accused held
SIALKOT, Dec 15 1997: The city police claimed to have traced the murderers of two Naqvi brothers, Aulad Husain Naqvi and his brother, after 43 days , and arrested six accused. Those arrested are Imran Moavia, Aamer Farooq, Maulvi Qasim Siddiqui, Malik Muhammad Sumair, Qari Riaz Ahmad and Khalid Mehmood.

Police said the accused were associated with the Sipah-i-Sahaba, and were involved in another subversive activity in Narowal. The arrested accused had disclosed the name of their ring leader who belonged to a neighbouring tehsil, police said but did not identify him.

A religious institution in Rangpura locality was being used as a base camp by these accused, police said.

The Naqvi brothers were shot dead at their drug shop located on the Mori Gate Road on November 3 last. The lawyers community was daily staging a sit-in before the SSP office as Aulad Husain Naqvi was an advocate.

Lahore High Court hears Naqvis' case
LAHORE, Aug 16 2001: There is irrefutable evidence on record against the accused in the Sialkot sectarian killings, Advocate-General Maqbool Ilahi Malik submitted before a three-member bench of the Supreme Court here on Thursday.

He said the accused appellants - Haroon Rashid and Imran Ahmad - admittedly belonged to the Sipah-i-Sahaba and conceded in their appeal filed from jail that the motive behind the killings was the faith of their victims - Ghulam Baqir Naqvi and Aulad Husain Naqvi.

As for the timing of the incident, he said the Naqvi Medical Store, Sialkot, was a wholesale outlet which supplied medicines to retailers and opened early in the morning for their convenience. The post mortem forensic laboratory reports and the identification parade fully substantiated and corroborated the prosecution case. The appellants' counsel will make his final rebuttal on Friday.