A gunman on a motorcycle shot dead a lawyer in Nankana Sahib on Thursday, police said, in an attack claimed by an Islamic State-linked militant group. Malik Saleem Lateef, a relative of the 1979 Nobel Prize-winning physicist Abdus Salaam, was killed on his way to a court complex in the Nankana Sahib district of Punjab. "He was going to the district courts with his son, also a lawyer, when an unidentified motorcyclist shot him," police official Nazim Ali told AFP.
"The bullet struck Lateef in his chest, killing him on the spot, while his son sustained minor injuries." Police said the attacker was wearing a security guard's uniform and fled the scene. The al-Alami faction of the banned Sunni sectarian organisation Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, which has ties to the Middle East-based Islamic State group, claimed responsiblity in a statement sent to journalists.
Lateef's son Malik Awais told AFP he believed his father was killed for being an Ahmadi.