Local court in Karachi on Thursday has sentenced to death prime suspect Atif Zaman in the anchor Mureed Abbas murder case.
The verdict has been announced in the case after seven years.
Atif Zaman has been sentenced to death on two counts. He has also been ordered to pay Rs1 million fine to the victim’s family.
Bol News anchorperson Mureed Abbas was gunned down in 2019 in Defence area of Karachi
Police officials said that he was killed during a fight over a personal dispute in Khayaban-e-Bukhari area.
He was allegedly shot by his business partner Atif Zaman who also tried to commit suicide by shooting himself.
He was later admitted to a local hospital with critical injuries.
According to police reports accused Zaman had to pay back a debt to the TV news anchor. It is also believed that the killer had threatened him with dire consequences.
What happened on the night Mureed Abbas was killed
Zaman had called the victim to a café in a posh area of Defence in Karachi and gunned down Abbas and his friend.
A video of the anchorman’s wife Zara Abbas has gone viral on social media where she claims that the accused Zaman had called her husband at 8pm to collect Rs5 million owed to him.
“We had invested our money in his business and he [Zaman] wasn’t giving it back to us and others, he would always make excuses,” she said.
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