Source/Credit: Dawn / The News | Pakistan
By TOA Staff |
Pakistan's Daily Dawn reports (excerpts):
Seraiki intellectual, writer, rights activist and Hirrak Development Centre chief executive officer Zafar Lund was shot dead at the gate of his residence in Kot Addu on Thursday. He was 55.
Two motorcyclists came to his house near the Government Girls Degree College in the afternoon and called him out. As he came out, the suspects opened fire at him and fled. He died of a bullet injury to his head.
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Lund has left behind three sons, one daughter and a widow.
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Talking to Dawn, District Police Officer Awais Ahmad termed the case a targeted killing.
According to an article entitled "You Asked for it" in The News by Khayyam Mushir, Lund was "a member of the Ahmadiyya community and last week the controversy of his religious beliefs prevailed over his remarkable humanist contributions – Lund was shot dead at point blank range on the gate of his residence in Kot Addu."
Zafar Lund "was the founder of the Sindhu Bachao Tarla, a civil society forum aimed at protecting water rights and championing the cause of oppressed and dispossessed riverine communities of the Indus in Kot Addu."
As the chief executive of the Hirrak Development Centre, an NGO concerned with providing a voice to the marginalised communities affected by nuclear, hydel, and coal power projects being set up in Muzaffargarh, Lund struggled passionately and untiringly for the landless, showcasing his message of human rights through programmes on Seraiki jhumar, folk songs, street theatre and storytelling.
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