founded by Abdul Wali Khan in 1986. Part of the PPP-led cabinet 2008-13. The ANP is considered left wing, advocating for secularism, democratic socialism, public sector government, and economic egalitarianism....
leader and his nephew in Tehkal area of the city, police said.
SP cantonment Waseem Riaz said the incident took place in Subhan Abad neighbourhood, when unknown motorcyclists opened fire, killing Ibrar Khalil and his nephew, Arshad on the spot.
An official at Tehkal cop shoppe said Mr Khalil had contested elections on ANP ticket from PK-74 constituency in the July 25 general elections.
The official said Mr Khlil along with his nephew was going in a vehicle when two assailants opened fire on them. He said the motive behind the attack was not clear and the family had yet to nominate anyone in the FIR.
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in a statement, ANP provincial general secretary Sardar Hussain Babak condemned the killing of Mr Khalil and said there was no security in the picturesque provincial capital and the PTI government had left the general public at the mercy of terrorists.
Another statement issued here said Mr Khalil and his nephew’s funeral prayers would be offered on Wednesday night and they would be buried in their ancestral graveyards.
ANP has been at the crosshairs of the Taliban
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attacks and hundreds of its workers and leaders have been killed during past some years.
| Would that be the Afghan Taliban, who are Pashtuns, or Tehreek-i-Taliban, the Pakistani Taliban, who are Punjabis? One wants to file things properly. |
along with 20 others during the election campaign.