KARACHI: Three brothers and their uncle, the victims of the gun attack on a majlis in Nazimabad, were laid to rest on Monday amid tight security, as political and religious leaders called for proper implementing the National Action Plan with focus on banned militant outfits.

Funeral prayers for all the four victims was offered at Ancholi Imambargah, which was attended by religious and political leaders and others.

Moving scenes were witnessed when cof fins of the three brothers, Bagar Abbas Zaidi, Nayyar Mehdi and Nasir Abbas Zaidi, and their uncle, Mohammad Zaki Khan,were brought for funeral prayers amid tight security.

The 15-year-old son of Bagar Zaidi, Murtaza Zaidi, and two other brothers of the three siblings, Nadir and Tahir, were among the five wounded victims under treatment at hospital.

The fifth victim, Nadeem Lodhi, was a Sunni. It is reported that he was the driver of one of the victims. He was laid to rest at a local graveyard on Sunday.

Two victim brothers had recently come to Pakistan, as they worked in the World Bank and United Nations, respectively, according to a spokesperson for the Majlis Wahdat-iMuslimeen. He said their uncle, Mohammed Zaki Khan, was the younger brother of AdvocateK.M. Nadeem.

`The Nazimabad tragedy reflected incompetency of the government and the security institutions,` said MWM central leader Allama Ahmed Iqbal while speaking to mourners.

He said banned organisations were holding rallies under police protection in the metropolis.

Shia Ulema Council leader Mirza Yusuf Husain told the media that the police knew that who were involved in this act of terrorism but they conducted targeted raids in surroundingareasof Nazimabad and detained many innocent persons, which was a condemnable act.

MQM-Pakistan leaders Dr Farooq Sattar and Faisal Sabzwari told the media that the NationalAction Plan was not being implemented in its true spirit.

They believed that when `neighbourhood watch system` existed, there were no killings and street crimes in Nazimabad and other areas but those `barriers` were removed. They also lamented that there was no concept of community policing, while the city administration had been made `helpless`.

Later, the four victims were laid to rest in the Wadi-i-Hussain graveyard, of f the Superhighway.

The five people were killed and an equal number of people were wounded when armed pillion riders opened fire on them at the venue of a majlis for women in Nazimabad-4 on Saturday evening.