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| India-Pakistan |
| Suspected target killer arrested |
| 2016-07-22 |
| [DAWN] PESHAWAR: A suspected hit man who shot and injured son of an Awami National Party founded by Abdul Wali Khan in 1986. Part of the PPP-led cabinet 2008-13. The ANP is considered left wing, advocating for secularism, democratic socialism, public sector government, and economic egalitarianism.... ’s general councillor was tossed in the clink Into the paddy wagon wit' yez! in the limits of Yakatoot cop shoppe on Wednesday. Police told Dawn that the local people managed to grab one of the attackers and handed him over to police, while the other one beat feet from the scene. The injured was identified as Mir Zaman, son of Zargarabad neighborhood council nazim ...small time big shot, the chief elected official of a local government in Pakistan, such as a district, tehsil, union council, or village council... Mosam Khan. 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. SSP operations Abbas Majeed Marwat confirmed that one of the alleged attackers was in the police custody. He said that they were interrogating him. A local resident told Dawn that the incident took place at around 11:00am on Wednesday when two motorcyclists opened fire on a group of people in Beri Bagh area of the city, located outside Zargarabad. He said that the attackers were wearing masks and one of them was grabbed by locals and handed over to Yakatoot police. The police have registered an FIR and started investigations. Separately, a 15-year-old girl allegedly did away with himself in a hotel in Namakmandi area here on Wednesday. A police official told Dawn that the family belonging to Bannu was in the city for medical treatment for the past two days. He said that mother of the girl told police that the teenager went to washroom in the morning and did not come out for long. She said that they broke the door and found her hanging from shower. The official said that they were investigating the incident. |
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