DERA MURAD JAMALI: A policeman was gunned down by unknown men in Dera Murad Jamali, while in another incident a female teacher was shot dead in Sibi on Thursday.

According to police, head Constable Ali Gohar was on his way to a police station when the unidentified men shot at him near a school, killing him on the spot.

Police shifted the body to a nearby hospital and later handed it over to Gohar’s family after medico-legal formalities.

The funeral prayers of the martyred policeman were offered at the Police Lines. A large number of police personnel and local residents attended it.

In the other incident, a female teacher was shot dead while she was on way to her school. “She received multiple bullet injuries and died immediately,” a police spokesperson said.

The teacher was a close relative of Peoples Party leaders Sardar Noor Ahmed Bangulzai and Akram Bangulzai, and sister of Assistant Commissioner Malik Bahadur Bangulzai. She was buried at Sibi’s Parak graveyard.

Published in Dawn, January 16th, 2026