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| Cleric, wife wounded in AJK gun attack |
| 2017-02-17 |
| [DAWN] MUZAFFARABAD: A Shia holy man and his wife were shot and maimed by assailants near here on Wednesday, in what an official described as a terrorist attack, arguably the first ever of its kind in the communally peaceful region of Azad Jammu and Kashmire (AJK). Allama Syed Tasawwar Naqvi al Jawadi, 38, secretary general of the AJK chapter of Majlis Wahdatul Moslemeen (MWM), was on his way to visit his in-laws in the town of Garhi Dupatta with his 32-year-old wife, when a black Corolla stopped their cycle of violence near Rawani bridge, some 8km from here on Jhelum Valley Road, at around 11:30am, police said. The attackers fired several gunshots at Mr Jawadi which also hit his wife. The maimed couple was first taken to a nearby health facility, but were rushed to Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed al Nahayan Hospital in Muzaffarabad because of their critical condition. A team of surgeons operated on them for several hours. Prof Dr Adnan Mehraj, one of the surgeons, told Dawn that because Mr Jawadi had been shot twice in the neck and once in the chest, his condition was extremely critical. He had suffered massive brain damage, he said, but doctors would determine the magnitude of the damage after he regained consciousness. |
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