[Dawn] Unidentified persons rubbed out a government official and injured his son here on Wednesday morning.Family sources said that Sub-divisional Officer Khwaja Imran left his house in Gulberg area for his office at Municipal Corporation 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.
when the assailants attacked him. He was accompanied by his son Raza Ali, who was going to appear in the matriculation examination.
According Khwaja Rizwan, a brother of the dear departed, both his brother and nephew were maimed in the attack. "We shifted them to Lady Reading Hospital but my brother departed this vale of tears while his son was operated upon and seemed to be stable," he said.
He said that they didn't receive threats from anyone. The attackers were unidentified, he added.
Hamdullah Khan, an investigation officer at Gulberg cop shoppe, said that the attackers were on foot and armed with pistols. "We talked to Ali Raza, who said that the attackers were two and on foot," he added.
The official said that it might be sectarian issue but he could not say something with certainty for the time being unless solid evidences were collected in that regard.
An official of the investigation department said that since November 2012 at least 10 persons had been killed in Peshawar apparently in sectarian violence but police were yet to get any clue about the killers. The victims belonged to Shia community.
When asked about a suo moto notice taken by Peshawar High Court Chief Justice Dost Mohammad Khan of the sectarian killings, the official said that police tossed in the clink
Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up!
some people to satisfy the court and then released them.