Gunmen Kill Pakistan Party Official

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KARACHI, Pakistan — The police said gunmen on a motorcycle shot and killed a senior member of a leading Pakistani political party on Saturday.

Officer Sarfaraz Nawaz said the victim, Zohra Shahid, was gunned down outside her home in Karachi in southern Sindh Province. Ms. Shahid was the vice president of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, the party led by the former Pakistani cricket star Imran Khan.

No one had claimed responsibility for the killing by Saturday night.

Mr. Khan’s party has claimed it was the victim of vote-rigging in several areas of Pakistan, including Karachi, in national elections held on May 11. Pakistan’s election commission plans to hold a new vote for several National Assembly seats, including in Karachi.

Jamal Siddiqui, a spokesman for Mr. Khan’s party, said Ms. Shahid had been killed to sabotage a new election scheduled to be take place in Karachi on Sunday.