American doctor shot dead in Pakistan in suspected sectarian attack

By Katharine Houreld ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - A volunteer American cardiologist was shot dead in Pakistan on Monday, a member of his minority Ahmadi community said, the latest attack on a group which says it is Muslim but whose religion is rejected by the state. Mehdi Ali had taken his five-year-old son and a cousin to a graveyard in Punjab province at dawn to pray when he was shot, said Salim ud Din, a spokesman for the Ahmadi community. They shot 11 bullets in him." Ali was born in Pakistan but moved abroad in 1996. Ali, 51, moved to Columbus, Ohio, in the United States, where he founded an Ahmadi center and raised funds for medical charities in Pakistan, said Din.



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