LAKKI MARWAT: The Bannu district president of Pakistan Peoples Party was gunned down over a blood feud here on Wednesday.

The police said armed motorcyclists attacked Malik Ishfaq Khan in the Bannu city and escaped. The PPP leader died on the spot.

A son of the slain leader, Mohammad Akbar, who was accompanying his father, remained unhurt in the attack. He told the Saddar police that he and his father were sitting at a power transformer repair workshop when two motorcyclists came there and opened fire on them.

He said his father died instantly, while he miraculously escaped the attack. He identified the attackers as Tehsin and Bilal.

The police shifted the body to a hospital for autopsy. They also registered a case against the killers.

Meanwhile, Chief Minister Mahmood Khan condemned the brutal killing of the PPP leader as a coward act. He directed the police to arrest the killers at the earliest. He prayed for the eternal peace of the departed soul and grant of solicitude to the bereaved family, according to APP.

Published in Dawn, October 7th, 2021