PESHAWAR: Unknown assailants gunned down a policeman in the limits of the Gulbahar police station here on Friday, while another policeman managed to escape unhurt.

An official at the Gulbahar police station said two personnel of the rider squad were on a routine patrol near Anam Sanam Chowk in Gulbahar area of the city, when unknown attackers opened fire on them, leaving one of the policemen named Janat Gul seriously wounded.

Gul was later taken to the city’s Lady Reading Hospital, where he succumbed to his injuries. However, the other policeman remained unhurt. Police registered a case against unknown attackers and started investigations.

Janat Gul’s funeral prayers were later offered at the Malik Saad Khan police lines and his body was dispatched to his ancestral Jhagra village on the outskirts of the Peshawar city for burial.

On May 20, militants killed Counter Terrorism Department deputy superintendent of police, Bahadar Khan, in an ambush in the same locality. Banned Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan claimed responsibility for the attack.

On April 24, seven police personnel were injured when an improvised explosive device targeted a mobile of the Emergency Response Force deputed outside the Gulbahar police station on the GT Road. TTP claimed responsibility for this attack.

In 2013, Frontier Reserves Police deputy commandant Gul Wali Khan was also seriously injured in an ambush in the same neighborhood.

Wali’s driver and gunman were killed in the attack. Gul Wali Khan’s residence situated in Gulbahar area again came under attack last year. A guard on duty was killed in the attack.

Published in Dawn, July 11th, 2015

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