ISLAMABAD: A German national and an armyman were killed in separate incidents in the capital on Tuesday.Police said Noel Mathias Do Rego alias Ibrahim, 49, was assassinated near his residence in G-10/4.

The German was driving home when a car intercepted him near his residence. Two persons disembarked from the car and opened indiscriminate fire on him and escaped.

As a result, the German national suffered bullet injuries and was shifted to hospital where he was pronounced dead.

A police officer told Dawn that the German and his parents were settled in Pakistan. He had a Pakistan Origin Card issued in Germany in 2019. He married a Pakistani woman and converted to Islam, he added.

The German along with his parents was residing in Johar Town Karachi from where he and his wife moved to Islamabad two months ago and were living in a house at G-10 owned by his sister-in-law.

The family of the victim is being approached to get the details about his background and his profession, said the officer.

In another incident, an armyman was murdered during a robbery in F-10 Markaz, police said. Naik Nasir Asghar had gone to a shop to meet his friends. In the meanwhile, two armed men entered the shop and held up the shopkeepers and the armyman at gunpoint and started looting cash.

As the shopkeepers and the armyman put up resistance, the gun men opened fire and a bullet hit the armyman in his shoulder. The injured was shifted to hospital where he died.

Police started an investigation under the supervision of SDPO Shalimar Zulfiqar Ahmed. The investigating team found a mobile phone from the spot which belonged to the robbers. The police then traced the whereabouts of the two robbers to Golra and arrested them.

In another incident, robbers shot and injured a shopkeeper during a robbery attempt in Melody Market. All Pakistan Traders Association and Traders Action Committee Islamabad President Ajmal Baloch told

Dawn that two robbers entered a jewellery shop in the guise of beggars. When a worker in the shop asked them to leave, they pulled out weapons and tried to hold the people inside the shop at gunpoint, Mr Baloch said.

The robbers opened fire when the owner of the shop pulled out a pistol.

Before fleeing in a car, the armed men shot and injured a man outside the shop. The injured was identified as Humayun. The traders of the market closed their businesses and staged a protest demanding arrest of the robbers, he said.

Published in Dawn, December 30th, 2020