Actor Nadeem Jafri files FIR for robbery attempt in Karachi

KARACHI: Actor Nadeem Jafri has filed an FIR for an attempted robbery at the Gulshan-e-Iqbal police station on Thursday.

Jafri claimed he was sitting outside his house with a friend at 4:30 am when unknown men showed him a gun and took away his cell phone and cash.

“The robbers took away my phone and Rs 13000 from Raza Haider [his friend],” he said.

The incident was first highlighted by singer Fakhr-e-Alam who tweeted that “his dear friend” Nadeem Jaffri had survived multiple bullet wounds.

My dear friend artist Nadeem Jafri was shot at multiple times at sehri time today in a robbery. He survived miraculously. Thank you Allah.

— Fakhr-e-Alam (@falamb3) June 30, 2016

Nadeem Jafri recieved assault wounds & was robbed outside his home in Gulshan Iqbal Karachi. The entire family is shaken up.

— Fakhr-e-Alam (@falamb3) June 30, 2016

The singer had earlier filed a request at the Darakshan police station demanding security after famed Qawwal Amjad Sabri’s murder. He was accompanied by several artists.

Earlier this week a video by the Fakhr-e-Alam went viral on social media.

In the video Fakhr-e-Alam said that if government officials are 'high profile targets' so are artists. "If government officials can have bullet proof cars and police escorts artists demand the same treatment. And if the government cannot provide us police escorts, then please return your own escorts so that we have the satisfaction that we are as vulnerable as your are on the streets of Karachi," he said.

In the video several artists including singer Faakhir, actors Neelam Munir and Maria Wasti can be seen.