A senior member of the Mutthaida Qaumi Movement, Waseem Akhtar, who is the nominee for the Mayor’s post also condemned Sabri’s killing and said the government should resign.
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Thousands showed up to pay their final respects and offer funeral prayers for departed soul.
A spokesman for the Pakistani Taliban, Qari Saifullah Saif, said that the killing was done because of a song that the group considered “blasphemous”.
“Amjad Sabri expired on the way to the hospital”, police surgeon Rohina Hasan said.
The assailants on a motorbike fired at Sabri’s vehicle at Liaquatabad area of Karachi.
Amjad Sabri, 45, and an associate were travelling in a auto in Karachi’s congested Liquatabad 10 area when two unidentified motorcycle-borne gunmen fired at their vehicle, critically injuring them.
In 2014, Sabri was caught up in a blasphemy case involving a Sufi song he had sung on a morning television show that mentioned religious figures in a way some deemed offensive.
Dozens of police and paramilitary Rangers on Thursday guarded the funeral procession winding its way down the road, as a sea of mourners, some wearing black armbands, others in coloured turbans that signified their sects, surrounded the ambulance carrying Sabri’s body.
During the meeting it was decided that in order to prevent target killing in the city an unbiased operation against all terrorists and their militant wings will be launched.
Police officials recovered five 30-bore casings from the scene of the attack, which have been sent for forensics.
Sufi mosques and shrines have come under attack in recent years, including the 2010 bombing of the Data Darbar shrine in Lahore that killed more than 40 people.
Sabri was known as “rockstar” of Qawali due to his modern style of rendering Mystic poetry.
Bollywood singer Sonu Nigam expressed condolence to Pakistan over the loss of Amjad Sabri. He was directly shot at his head with two bullets while one was shot at the neck of the singer. Some of his most memorable qawwalis were “Bhar Do Jholi Meri”, “Tajdar-i-Haram” and “Mera Koi Nahin Hai Teray Siwa”.
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Fakhre Alam, the Chairman of the Sindh Board of Film Censors, claimed on Twitter that Sabri had earlier submitted an application for security, but the home department refused to follow up on it.
