The World - News from Dec. 12, 1986

A cardiologist killed 13 people in the last month “for the fun of it,” police in Lahore, Pakistan, charged. Sohrab Aslam Khan, 42, a U.S. citizen who returned to his native Pakistan in 1981, was called “a beast, not a human being,” by Punjab provincial Police Chief Sabahuddin Jami, who said Khan confessed to nine of the killings. Four of the murders occurred Nov. 13. Circling Lahore’s spacious Mall Road on a motorcycle, Khan shot a dogcatcher, an unidentified man, a service station attendant and a night watchman, police said. A week later, they said, he killed two night watchmen and a rickshaw driver and dumped their bodies in a canal.