KARACHI: A driver of the attorney general of Pakistan was killed while his two police guards were injured when an apparently overspeeding car rammed into a security camp set up outside his (AG’s) home in Defence Housing Authority on Thursday, said police.
They added that the vehicle went out of control of the driver and hit the guards’ tent pitched outside the AG’s bungalow at Khayaban-i-Shahbaz, Phase-VI, DHA. As a result, three persons were injured. They were taken to the JPMC where doctors pronounced Liaquat dead on arrival, said Dr Seemin Jamali, executive director of the hospital.
Two police guards namely Shehzad and Farhan suffered injuries.
The driver of the overspeeding vehicle, Sultan Gul, also suffered injuries in the incident. He was arrested and the vehicle impounded.
The police attributed the incident to overspeeding.
South SSP Zubair Nazeer Shaikh confirmed that the deceased was a driver of the AG while the injured policemen were his security guards posted there.
The AG visited the JPMC.
Published in Dawn, May 28th, 2021
