SUKKUR: Motorcycle-riding armed men gunned down a schoolteacher near power grid station within the jurisdiction of Kashmore police station in Kandhkot-Kashmore district on Thursday.

Family sources said the schoolteacher, Fahad Khoso, was going to his school when the assailants fired at him indiscriminately from close range and escaped.

Police officials said that police rushed to the crime scene after receiving information about the incident and shifted the dead body to civil hospital for post mortem examination. It was later handed over to heirs after completion of medico-legal formalities, they said.

They said that they had started investigation into the teacher’s murder and would soon arrest his assailants.

Jamaat-i-Islami Sindh’s emir Muhammad Hussain Mehanti condemned the teacher’s murder in a press statement and said that menace of tribal feuds had become a cancer for Sindh’s society, which had destroyed uncountable number of families but police and administration acted as silent spectators doing nothing to stop bloodshed of the innocent.

Two men kidnapped

A gang of dacoits kidnapped a retired schoolteacher and his friend when they were driving a car on National Highway in Shikarpur district on Thursday.

The retired teacher Ghulam Mustafa Brohi and his friend Ghulam Qadir Rind were going to Shikaripur from Qalat in a car when they were abducted along with the vehicle from the highway.

The hostages’ relatives said that when they had last traced location of the hostages’ mobile phones, they were found in riverine area of Kot Shahu in Shikarpur district.

Sources said that kidnappers had phoned the kidnap victims’ families and demanded Rs20 million ransom for the release of their loved ones and their car.

Published in Dawn, August 23rd, 2024