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Alleged killers of army officer arrested
[DAWN] PESHAWAR: The city police on Friday claimed to have tossed in the calabooseDon't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! two hit mans of a banned holy warrior outfit involved in murder of a serving lieutenant colonel of Pakistain Army. Lt-Col Tariq Ghafoor was bumped off by unknown assailants on Ring Road area falling in the jurisdiction of Sarband cop shoppe on the outskirts of the Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. city. ASP Hayatabad Hassan Afzal told news hounds that the city police and Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) managed to arrest the hit mans in joint raids. He identified the accused as Imtiaz alias Farooq and Hussain Jan. The police officer said Imtiaz was arrested from Alam Godar area of Bara, while Hussain Jan was nabbed from Achini area of the city. He said the hit mans were tasked by a commander of a holy warrior outfit while they were serving their prison terms in Jalalabad jail in Afghanistan. He said when Imtiaz was at the end of his five-year term and Hussain his three years, the commander of the holy warrior outfit, who was also in jail, tasked them with murdering Lt-Col Ghafoor. They were promised Rs1 million for the kill. ASP Afzal said the killers followed Ghafoor after coming to Peshawar following completing their prison terms, adding the two rubbed out the army officer while riding a cycle of violence. The police officer said the accused were also involved in other incidents of assassination'>assassination across the province, adding they had been handed over to the CTD for investigations. Posted by: Fred 2016-05-15 |
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