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| Slain ANP leader's house attacked |
| 2014-04-21 |
| [DAWN] Unknown gunnies attacked a hujra in the Badbher area on the outskirts of Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. and kidnapped three people. The hujra situated in the Mashokhel area of Badbher belongs to the slain Awami National Party (ANP) leader Mian Mushtaq. The three people who were kidnapped were reported to be Mushtaq's close associates and relatives. The Station House Officer (SHO) of Badbher cop shoppe Garanullah said that the attackers may have thrown a hand grenade or a bomb at Mushtaq's hujra, which damaged two vehicles on the premises. Family sources have said that three people related to the late ANP leader were kidnapped by the gunnies, SHO Garanullah said. The names of those kidnapped are Fahad, Shakeel and Shabbir Ahmed. The police said that it was not possible at present to confirm whether the attack was carried out by Death Eaters or was a result of a personal enmity. Mian Mushtaq was bumped off some weeks earlier along with his driver and an associate. His funeral was also targeted with a remote-controlled bomb that went kaboom!near the funeral venue. Mian Naseer Ahmed, a relative of the slain ANP leader, registered a report with the police and said that masked gunnies entered the premises and kidnapped Fahad, Shakeel and Shabbir after separating them from the others. He added that after taking the abductees, the gunnies detonated some explosives, which damaged two vehicles parked nearby and to the hujra. |
| Posted by:Fred |