Singer and actor Nadeem Jafri was mugged on Thursday morning in the Gulshan-i-Iqbal, Karachi.
In initial reports broadcast and published in different news channels and social media and Jafri was shot-at and escaped miraculously. which was not true although there was an exchange of gunshots, no physical harm was done.
The message went viral when singer and actor Fakhr-e-Alam tweeted on Twitter that Mr Jafri was shot multiple times but escaped miraculously.
In an exclusive interview which was reported in ‘Daily Dawn’, Jafri tells the real story “After Sehri I was sitting in a friend’s car, who’s an army officer, two, three rows from my home. A bike came and parked a couple of feet from us. There were two men riding it. One of them came to us. He cocked a TT pistol and pointed at us. First I thought he had come to shoot us, but then I realized it was an attempt to mug us. He grabbed quite a few things including cash and my mobile phone. During this time a scuffle broke out (mudd bher) between us, and my friend and I took out our weapons. We shot at them, they shot in return. The firing went on for some 40, 50 seconds, and the entire neighbourhood came out, but, ironically, the police mobile positioned in a corner did not budge from its place. We followed them in our car, but they [robbers] disappeared in the lanes. We even called 15, no one came.”
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According to Gulshan SP Dr Fahad Ahmed, two gunmen robbed artist and Nadeem Jafri sitting outside his home in Gulshan-i-Iqbal Block-3 along with his friend. However, there no firing incident took place nor any physical harm was caused to the artist.
The case has been registered on a complaint of the robbery victim and the police were investigating the case.
The Gulshan SP said that the artist was demanding provision of security but the local police advised him to approach the authorities concerned to this effect, as the relevant police security zone could provide him guards.
In a statement, the police spokesperson said the mobile snatching incident took place. But it had no sectarian motive, he added.
