ISLAMABAD: A general councillor belonging to the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) was shot at and injured by assailants within the jurisdiction of the Karachi Company police station here on Thursday night.

The PTI claimed that some “suspected terrorists” were involved in mysterious activities along the wall of a government girls’ college in the area. When Mr Zeeshan of Union Council 35 in Sector G-9-1 challenged the suspects, they opened fire at him and fled on their motorbike. The councillor, however, managed to snatch some maps from the suspects.

UC 35 chairman Malik Rafiq, who also belongs to the PTI, claimed that the attackers had marked an Imambargah and the office of the college’s principal on one map, implying that they were doing recce for carrying out some terrorist activities.

A PTI spokesman told Dawn that party MNA Asad Umar visited the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences where Zeeshan was undergoing treatment. The doctors there termed Mr Zeeshan’s condition as stable.

Published in Dawn, December 9th, 2016