Karachi: Sindh’s police chief on Tuesday told his team to have close contacts with the intelligence agencies to resolve the three high-profile gun attacks in the past weeks that challenged the security forces.

Ghulam Haider Jamali, the inspector-general of police (IGP) of Sindh province convened a meeting of the senior police officials to know the progress in the murder cases of Sabeen Mehmood and police officer Ejaz Ali Khawja who were gunned down in recent days.

The gunshot attack on Debra Lobo, an American lady, who was living in Pakistan for more than two decades, was also discussed.

Mehmood, a right activist, who ran The Second Floor (T2F) cafe where she would arrange intellectual debates and events, was killed on Friday when unknown gunmen attacked her car as she departed with her mother from T2F.

Prime Minsiter Nawaz Sharif had ordered the investigation into the killing of Mehmood.

Earlier on April 16, Debra Lobo, an American affiliated with the private sector Jinnah Medical and Dental College as vice-principal, was shot at while she was on her way to home from the college in a middle class neighbourhood.

Lobo survived the attack but the pamphlets, which were left by the attackers in Lobo’s car, alarmed the police as the attackers claimed to be ‘the lions of Islamic State.”

In the beginning of the month police officer Khawja was also killed in the morning when he was on his way to office from home.

“In such cases, contact with the intelligence agencies and the other law enforcement agencies should be ensured on all the levels,” Jamali was quoted as saying in a press statement.

Deputy inspector-generals of the East and South districts, where the three attacks took place, told the meeting that they were tapping on all the modern techniques of investigation and reviewing all the aspects of the attacks.

The IG instructed the officers to ensure securing of the crime scenes and scientific collection of the evidence to get on to the logical end of the crime. He also ordered the investigative officers to submit the progress reports of the cases to him on daily basis.