A few weeks ago it was Sabeen's death anniversay. Yesterday it was Rashid Rahman's & today khurram martyred. All unarmed peaceful activists — M. Jibran Nasir (@MJibranNasir) May 7, 2016

Shocked and grieved to learn that a courageous rights activist #KhurramZaki has been killed in targetted attack in #Karachi. Terrible news. — Nafisa Shah (@ShahNafisa) May 7, 2016

انّا للہ و انّا الیہ راجعون https://t.co/MetZGHvYss — LUBP (@CriticalPPP) May 7, 2016

Unidentified assailants gunned down rights activist Khurram Zaki in Karachi on Saturday night.Zaki along with friend Khalid Rao were sitting at a tea shop in Sector 11-B, North Karachi when gunmen opened fire."Two armed men riding a motorcycle opened indiscriminate fire on them [victims]," said a witness. "The job was done within a few seconds."The victims were shifted to the Aga Khan Hospital where Zaki passed away whereas Rao was said to be in a critical condition.Police reached the site and initiated an investigation."We recovered as many as 19 empty pistol shells," said Sir Syed police station SHO Muhammad Iftikhar.Head of Majlis-e-Wahdatul Muslimeen (MWM) Allama Nasir Abbas, in a statement, condemned the attack.Zaki was vocal against extremist elements - started a campaign against Maulana Abdul Aziz when the latter refused to condemn the December 2014 Peshawar attack.An editor for the blog, ‘ Let Us Build Pakistan ’ and a former television journalist; he had been actively campaigning against sectarian violence as well.The blog was recently blocked by the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority for viewers in the country.