KARACHI
\nTariq Mateen, brother of journalist Athar Mateen, on Sunday said the deceased journalist was robbed nearly nine times before being killed in Karachi while foiling a mugging bid.
\nSpeaking during a special transmission of a private television channel over rising street crime incidents in Karachi, he said that not only Athar but they were five brothers and each of them have been robbed multiple times on Karachi streets.
\n\u201cThe robbers are roaming freely and it is Karachiites who need to hide their mobile phones and cash while going out over fear of getting robbed,\u201d he said and added, \u201cOur police and government has failed to deal with the situation,\u201d he said.
\nHe asked as to why they had to pay the price of the government\u2019s failure. \u201cThe government functionaries only had to issue a condemnation after every such incident without taking concrete steps to deal with it,\u201d he said.
\nHe lamented that the spot where Athar Mateen was shot dead was less than a kilometre away from a police station. \u201cHowever, no one came from the station even after the robbers took their time to run away while continuously firing,\u201d Tariq Mateen said and blamed that those who had to take action against these elements are allegedly their backers.
\nIt is pertinent to mention here that unidentified armed men opened fire on a vehicle in Karachi\u2019s Nazimabad area, killing a local journalist identified as Athar Mateen as he tried to foil a mugging bid. The police said that the journalist Athar Mateen tried to foil a mugging bid when the incident occurred.
\n\u201cMuggers were looting a citizen when Mateen hit them with his vehicle,\u201d they said and added that the suspects after being hit opened fire on him resulting in his immediate death.
\n\u201cAthar Mateen was shot three times and we have recovered two empty casings of 30-bore pistol,\u201d SSP Central Maroof Usman said and added that a team of crime scene unit has also been dispatched to the spot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
KARACHI Tariq Mateen, brother of journalist Athar Mateen, on Sunday said the deceased journalist was robbed nearly nine times before being killed in Karachi while foiling a mugging bid. Speaking during a special transmission of a private television channel over rising street crime incidents in Karachi, he said that not only Athar but they were […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-245507","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-top-news"},"yoast_head":"\n