KARACHI: The police on Tuesday claimed to have arrested the key suspect of a robbery that happened in Gulistan-i-Jauhar last week and resulted in the death of a lady doctor, who had come here from Canada a week earlier to attend the wedding of a relative of hers.

Speaking at a press conference at his office, SSP East Azfar Mahesar claimed that suspect Faisal, alias Kala, was associated with the Muttahida Qaumi Movement-London and had been wanted in more than 100 cases of killings, robberies, extortion and police encounters.

His three associates were also identified as Azmat; Anwar, alias Grenade; and Rehmat. They were also associated with the same party but they were still at large, the police added.

Forty-year-old Dr Ayesha Rehman was shot dead in her Gulistan-i-Jauhar home when one of her relatives put up resistance to an armed robbery bid attheir home.

According to SSP Mahesar, four armed men clad in trousers and shirts with ties entered a house in Block 13 near the Darul Sehat Hospital at around 8.30am on August 26.

However family members put up resistance, upon which robbers opened fire on them and fled.

The lady doctor sustained critical bullet wounds and was taken to the Aga Khan University Hospital, where she died during treatment, he added.

The alleged robbers had come to the house in a car, which they left and fled, the SSP said, adding that the police seized the car and during search found a .30-bore pistol, a sub-machine gun and police caps. He said that the number plate of the car was not genuine.

The investigators got significant clues during the course of probe which led to arrest of the key suspect, the police said and added that the victim doctor was a sister-in-law of Sharea Faisal SHO Inspector Sarwar Commando and the incident took place in his jurisdiction.