ISLAMABAD, Nov 6: A brigadier and his driver were injured when two men opened fire on his private car here on Friday.

The attackers escaped on a motorbike despite extensive police patrol and checkpoints in the capital.

Brig Hafiz Sohail was going to his office along with his driver Ramzan when the gunmen ambushed his car in sector I-8/4.

The car veered off the road and hit an under-construction building.

The injured men trapped in the car were pulled out and taken to the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences where they were stated to be in stable condition.

However, the driver was operated upon and shifted to the Combined Military Hospital.

This was the third attack on an army officer in the federal capital over the past two weeks.

None of the assailants has been arrested so far.

A police official told Dawn that a gunman ambushed the car from the green belt in I-8/4 and escaped with his accomplice who was waiting for him on a motorbike.

The SP said: “We have found a 9mm pistol and some casings, including those of SMG, from the scene.”

One security official claimed that it was a general, not targeted, attack.
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