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PESHAWAR, Dec 30: An independent candidate from PF-20 for provincial by-election was shot at and injured allegedly by four persons in Daudzai-Gulbela area, a suburb of the city, on Sunday night.
Tahir Zaman, son of Nadir Khan, told Daudzai police that he was in his car No Peshawar N-4500 on the main Peshawar-Charsadda Road near Daudzai when four persons — Amin Nawaz, Sher, Jan and Inam, sons of Amir Nawaz, residents of Tangi — allegedly opened fire.
Tahir Zaman was shot three times and was rushed to Lady Reading Hospital where he was given first and discharged.
The accused fled after the firing incident.
Police said that the cause of the firing was enmity between Tahir Zaman and Amir Nawaz of Tangi.
Police have registered a case and started investigations.
Tahir Zaman was arrested for the murder of the former chief minister Fazle Haq and was again arrested on a murder attempt on Aftab Ahmed Sherpao, during the 1988 general elections.
ARMS SEIZED: A vigilance cell at Cantt Railway Station seized a large quantity of arms and ammunition booked for Lahore and arrested an employee of Royal Arms Factory here on Monday.
Sources said that Royal Arms Factory had booked 52 rifles and 50,000 cartridges packed in cartoons for Lahore.
The company employee namely Samiullah, who had been arrested, claimed that the rifles were 44-bore and booked for arms dealers in Lahore.
But Major Riaz Ali Shah, deputy director of vigilance cell claimed that the arms were 7mm made to look like Kalashnikov, which was a prohibited bore.
He informed that the government in August last year banned the transportation of cartridges and arms of prohibited bore.
