 Assailants ambushed a vehicle carrying a senator from the Federally Administrated Tribal Areas on Sunday, killing him and two of his companions, an official said. Senator Malik Faridullah Khan was killed in the attack in the Krirh Wam area in the South Waziristan, an intelligence official told AP from Tank, asking not to be named. Khan, a former federal minister and chief of the Ahmedzai Wazir tribe, was travelling to Tank, the official said. AFP said that Khan and two others travelling with him were killed in the attack, launched from two cars coming from the opposite direction. |