Late Sufi qawwal’s family is planning to settle abroad for their protection.
Pakistan’s famous Qawwal late Amjad Sabri’s family is planning to leave the country due to fear of some serious security reasons to remaining family members.
According to Azmat Sabri, brother of the slain Qawwal, all their family member feel scared following the Amjad Sabri’s murder case. The whole family has decided to shift to London for the protection of their lives, Azmat said.
“Although, we have spent all our lives in this city, but we now consider ourselves insecure. Our lives are at stake in Liaquatabad,” he said while exclusively talking to media persons.
He requested the federal government to compensate their family travel expenditures as they are planning to apply for the British visa. He acknowledged former chief justice Iftikhar Chaudhry’s efforts on his cooperation in their visa procedure. Sabri’s mother also appealed government to facilitate them to go abroad.
“We feel insecure and it has become difficult living under these circumstances,” he said while adding that Amjad has left behind three daughters and two sons and the family must think about their future and well-being.
He once again demanded the government to bring the killers of his brother to justice. “We are unable to bear loss anymore after the demise of our beloved brother.”
Iconic Qawwal Amjad Sabri was murdered in Karachi on 22nd June 2016 in the month of Ramazan, when he was heading towards ARY studio for the Ramazan transmission. Two armed motorcyclists pulled up beside his car and fired a volley of bullets at him, killing him on the spot.
Another Sabri brother, Talha Sabri has expressed his desire of seeing the killers of Sabri hanged till death publicly and on the same spot they killed his brother.