Taliban suspect involved in PTI MPA murder arrested: police

Published June 25, 2013
File photo shows slain Khyber Pakhtunkhwa independent provincial lawmaker, who later joined the Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaf (PTI).—File photo
File photo shows slain Khyber Pakhtunkhwa independent provincial lawmaker, who later joined the Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaf (PTI).—File photo

ISLAMABAD: Police in the federal capital have arrested two alleged Taliban terrorists, claiming one of them to be the primary suspect in the murder of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provincial lawmaker Fareed Khan.

MPA Fareed Khan, who was elected as an independent candidate from the KP-42 seat and later joined the Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaf (PTI), was gunned down on June 3 in Hangu.

In a press conference on Tuesday, Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Yaseen Farooq claimed that they one of the suspects arrested, identified as Atifullah, was a member of the banned militant group Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and was involved in the killing of the KP lawmaker.

Farooq said the other suspect was identified as Abid Khan and as also an alleged member of the TTP.

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