The Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) announced on Friday that it would observe three days of mourning against the targeted killing of its MPA Sajid Qureshi and his son in Karachi.
Qureshi and his son were shot dead near North Nazimabad.
Tension gripped the area after the incident and shop and businesses closed down in various areas of the city.
Meanwhile the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) on Friday called upon Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry to take suo motu notice into the killing of MPA Sajid Qureshi in Karachi.
Speaking to reporters outside the Parliament House here, MQM leader Rashid Godial said: “I fail to understand who is patronizing the killers.”
Earlier, MQM boycotted the ongoing session of the National Assembly in protest against the targeted killing of MPA Qureshi and his young son in North Nazimabad in Karachi.