An official of the Sindh Bar Council was shot dead by unidentified assailants in Gulistan-i-Jauhar area of Karachi, the provincial capital of Sindh, on November 1, reports Dawn. Irfan Mehar was targeted by assailants when he was driving a car near Chappal Plaza in Block-13 of Gulistan-i-Jauhar. The attackers waylaid the vehicle driven by Mehar and sprayed him with bullets, causing his death on the spot. Advocate Naeem Qureshi, former secretary of the Karachi Bar Association, said that Mehar was returning home after dropping off his daughter at school when he was attacked. He said the deceased was not a lawyer and that he was an officeholder at the Sindh Bar Council.