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| KP police arrests suspect in Afzal Kohistani's murder |
| 2019-03-09 |
[DAWN] The Khyber Pakthunkhwa Police on Friday locked awayDon't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! a man from Palas who is suspected to be involved in the killing of Afzal Kohistan ...a backwoods district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa distinguished by being even more rustic than is the norm among the local Pashtuns.... i ‐ the man responsible for exposing the Kohistan video scandal. Kohistani was rubbed out on Wednesday evening in the densely populated area of Sarban Chowk at around 8:10pm by unidentified button men who managed to flee afterwards. According to witnesses, Afzal was shot multiple times and went titzup, while three passersby were also injured. Abbottabad ... A pleasant city located only 30 convenient miles from Islamabad. The city is noted for its nice weather and good schools. It is the site of Pakistain's military academy, which was within comfortable walking distance of the residence of the late Osama bin Laden.... District Police Officer (DPO) Abbas Majeed Marwat confirmed the arrest, saying that the suspect was taken into custody during a raid in the Palas district of Kohistan. "A police party raided a house in the far flung region of Palas and arrested a man identified as Masoom Ali," Abbas Marwat told DawnNewsTV. He said that the police had arrested the man after an initial investigation was carried out in the Afzal Kohistani murder. Marwat also confirmed that a weapon has been recovered from the suspect's possession. |
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