ISLAMABAD: In a rare happening, National Assembly Speaker Asad Qaisar will attend a meeting of a parliamentary panel that will meet on June 10 to discuss the recent murders of three brothers in Charsadda.

Raja Khurram Shahzad Nawaz will preside over the meeting of the National Ass­embly’s Standing Committee on Interior. MNAs from Charsadda Fazal Mohammad and Malik Anwar Taj will also attend it on special invitation.

The meeting will discuss a single item agenda — the triple murder case.

Three brothers, including a superintendent of the Frontier Corps, were gunned down in the Ali Shah Kalle area of Charsadda in the last week of May.

According to police, three armed men barged into a Hujra of their rivals with whom they were in dispute over property ownership and opened fire on the three brothers who were present there.

The attackers escaped after committing the crime. The police started carrying out raids after registering a case.

Main accused Nadar Khan fled to Malaysia. The man who arranged air tickets and residential facility for Nadar Khan in Malaysia has been taken into custody.

A joint investigation team was constituted which made efforts to arrest other accused.

As many as 30 suspected persons, including five facilitators, have been arrested. The vehicle used by accused Nadar Khan to reach the airport had also been seized.

Police have written letters to the State Bank of Pakistan, National Database and Registration Authority and other relevant departments, asking them to freeze accounts of Nadar Khan, block his Computerised National Identity Card and also seize properties of other assailants.

Published in Dawn, June 5th, 2019