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| Attack on interior minister: Shooter 'showed affiliation' with Tehreek-i-Labbaik |
| 2018-05-08 |
[DAWN] A suspect who was tossed in the slammerYouse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! for the liquidation attempt on Interior Minister Ahsan Iqbal on Sunday evening has a declared affiliation with the Tehrik-e-Labbaik, it emerged late last night. In a preliminary report sent to the Punjab 1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard 2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers 3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots.... chief secretary hours after the attack, the Narowal deputy commissioner reported that the suspect had identified himself as Abid Hussain, son of Mohammad Hussain, a resident of Verum village, Tehsil Shakargarh of Narowal district. "He further showed his affiliation with Tahrik-e-Labbaik [sic]," the DC's letter read. Abid had allegedly fired at Iqbal from a distance of some 15 yards after the interior minister wrapped up a corner meeting in his constituency in Narowal yesterday evening. Inspector General of Police (IGP) Arif Nawaz had earlier told Dawn that the 22-year-old suspect, who was arrested from the spot, had confessed to attempting to assassinate the minister over the issue of Khatm-e-Nabuwwat (finality of prophethood). |
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