RAWALPINDI: Two persons were gunned down allegedly by their rivals over an old enmity in the limits of Race Course police late Sunday night.

The relatives of the victims were later booked by police on the charge of threatening doctors at the District Headquarters Hospital and firing gunshots into the air.

Kamran Sheraz, 32, a resident of Mughalabad, lodged an FIR with the Race Course police stating that there was a Valima ceremony of his friend’s son at a wedding hall in which he along with his brother Waleed Satti, Omer Sheraz, Faizan Butt and Shan Butt were invited.

He said after attending the function, Waleed Satti, Shan Butt and Faizan Butt were going towards Kuba market in their car while he and Omer Sheraz were following them on their motorcycle.

He said as their car crossed Qasim Market at about 11:30pm on Sunday, six persons riding two motorcycles, one of them identified as Ehtisham Qureshi, a resident of Tench Bhatta, appeared from behind and tried to stop the vehicle. One of the motorcycle riders then opened fire on Shan Butt while the other man targeted his brother Waleed Satti, injuring them critically.

The car in which the victims were traveling veered off the road and crashed into the footpath.

Later, the alleged killers sped off while firing in the air, the complainant said in the FIR.

The injured succumbed to their injuries while being shifted to DHQ Hospital.

He accused the six persons of killing his brother and Shan Butt due to an old enmity.

After the victims were taken to the DHQ hospital by their relatives, they had an exchange of hot words with doctors and allegedly fired gunshots into the air, insisting to attend to them first, creating panic and fear among the patients and hospital staff.

Dr Ikramullah Khan, medical superintendent of the DHQ hospital, lodged an FIR with Ganjmandi police saying at 11:30pm Waleed Satti and Shan were brought to the hospital’s emergency department.

The MS said in line with the procedure, the hospital staff started their treatment after noting their particulars.

While the patients were being treated, 25 to 30 people, including the heirs of the patients, started shouting on entering the emergency room.

They started threatening the hospital staff forcing them to first attend to their patients.

The duty staff, he said, tried to convince them, but they continued shouting and in the meantime one of them pulled out a pistol and started firing in the air outside the hospital.

The protesters escaped after the police who then registered a case against the unidentified people and launched an investigation with the help of CCTV footage in which one person could be seen firing gunshots into the air.

Meanwhile, the Young Doctors Association claimed that the relatives of the victims forced doctors to provide treatment to the two injured who had already died.

They also held the doctors in the hospital hostage for several hours.

Published in Dawn, April 29th, 2025