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| September 23, 2005 | Friday | Sha'aban 18, 1426 |
Fazl’s son, senator escape attack
PESHAWAR, Sept 22: Opposition Leader Maulana Fazlur Rehman’s son, Asadur Rehman, and a senator of the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal, Qari Obaidullah, escaped unhurt when an unidentified person fired at their vehicle on the Airport Road on the outskirts of Dera Ismael Khan.
Police sources said that the 20-year-old Asadur Rehman, elder son of Maulana Fazlur Rehman, and Qari Abdullah left the former’s home situated on the outskirts of DI Khan at 12.15pm and headed for a seminary in the Maulana’s village near Gomal University to attend a Dastar-Bandi ceremony there.
They had driven about a kilometre from his residence when all of a sudden an unidentified person appeared from the sugarcane fields on the Bannu Road and opened a burst of Kalashnikov fire on the vehicle and escaped, Asadur Rehman told the police. One of the front tyres of his Corolla car deflated after being hit by two bullets. However, they remained safe during the attack, he claimed.
Asadur Rehman added that he saw the person who had opened fire.
“He had a beard, wearing Khaki colour clothes and turban,” he told the Saddar Police of DI Khan.
The Deputy Inspector General DI Khan Zulfiqar Ahmad Cheema said that there were two other witnesses to the incident: a farmer who was watering his nearby fields and a motorbike rider. Mr Cheema told this correspondent that the police had cordoned off the entire sugarcane fields from where the attacker appeared and later vanished after opening fire.
“We have started combing the area and hopefully the attacker will be arrested,” he claimed and added that specially trained dogs of the Pakistan army were taking part in the hunt for the attacker.
An official at the Saddar police station said on being reached that they had not registered an FIR against the culprit. But the DIG said that registration of FIR was a secondary issue. “Right now we are focussing on the assailant,” he said, adding that the FIR could be register later on.
REMARKS SLATED: The Pakistan Peoples Party Parliamentarians has condemned President Pervez Musharraf’s statement regarding Pakistani women.
Its provincial secretary finance Ghani Gul Mehsud, while talking to journalists, said that the president, while giving interview to The Washington Post, had used very abusive language against Pakistani women. He said that his statement had proved that his policies of enlightened moderation and progressiveness are wrong.
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