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| Terrorists gun down KP info minister's son |
| 2010-07-25 |
| Rantburg translation [Pak Daily Times] Terrorists on Saturday murdered the son of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, aka Terrorism Central Information Minister Mian Iftikhar Hussain in Nowshera. According to police, two motorcyclists opened fire on Mian Rashid Hussain and his nephew Amjad, while they were walking in a bazaar. Rashid gave up the ghost, while Amjad was maimed in the attack. Rashid, 30, was the only son of Mian Iftikhar Hussain and was working as assistant director in the Beautiful Downtown Peshawar Development Authority (PDA). For the past two years, the KP information minister had been receiving death threats from hard boys for his outspoken stance against terrorism. Interior Minister Rehman Malik blamed the attack on the Taliban, saying government ministers and their families had been on an insurgent hit list. Condemning the murder, the ANP leadership said that killing of their family members would not weaken their stance against the Orcs and similar vermin. "Such cowardly acts by the Orcs and similar vermin will further strengthen our resolve against terrorism," the party leadership said in a statement. ANP chief Asfandyar Wali Khan and other ministers strongly condemned the incident and said that Orcs and similar vermin had now started targeting their family members. "The ANP will not bow down to Orcs and similar vermin and will continue to make sacrifices for the sake of establishing peace in the province by continuing the war against Orcs and similar vermin," he said. ANP leader and federal minister Bashir Ahmed Bilour also condemned the attack. Prime Minister Syed Yousaf Raza Gilani has expressed his profound grief over the death. He telephoned Iftikhar Hussain and strongly condemned the "cowardly attack" and said they'd get right on it. |
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