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LAHORE, May 3 (AFP) - Unidentified gunmen killed a Shi’a Muslim lawyer in a town in Pakistan's province of Punjab on Wednesday, police reported. Malik Ibrar Hussain died in a hail of bullets fired by three men riding a motorcycle in Toba Tek Singh, 220 kilometers (137 miles) south of the provincial capital, Lahore. Police said they suspected a sectarian motive in the murder, adding that the attackers escaped. On Tuesday, gunmen killed a Shi’a Muslim doctor and his three patients in an attack in Karachi in southern Sindh province. Police said four armed men barged into the clinic of Syed Sibtain in the Kharadar area of the port city and opened fire. A total of 37 Shi’a have been killed in sectarian attacks in Pakistan this year, most of them in the central Punjab province. Among them were 17 people who were massacred when gumen stormed a Shi’a mosque in Punjab's district of Attock last month, the worst sectarian incident since the military seized power in Pakistan in October. During the nearly three-year government of ousted prime minister Nawaz Sharif, some 320 people, 243 of them Shi’a Muslims, were killed in sectarian [attacks] blamed on religious unrest, police said.
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