28 Pakistani doctors mostly Shias killed in targeted attacks over four years

Around 28 Pakistani doctors, mostly Shias, were killed in targeted attacks by takfiri groups over four years.

 

Dr Aun Naseem Jafri, a Shia physician, was the latest victim of a gun attack on Thursday. He martyred two weeks after the murder of a colleague in the same fashion in his clinic in Landhi.

The figures show this year as the most lethal for the medical community in which 10 doctors have died so far.

Police said most of the victims had been targeted on sectarian grounds and their numbers increased this year.

The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan reported in its various statements showing thousands of people died in violent attacks in the city particularly since 2011.