Police officer Shahzad Khan said the killing took place in the Bhara Kahu neighborhood when Mufti Ikramur Rehman was heading toward his car with his 13-year-old son and a seminary student late Saturday night.
He said three assailants fired several shots before fleeing the scene. The holy man, his son and the student received multiple gunshot wounds and died at a hospital.
No one immediately grabbed credit for the attack and Khan said an investigation was underway to ascertain the identity of the assailants and the motive behind the killings.
Ikramur Rehman was affiliated with the party of firebrand
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firebrandsare noted more for audio volume and the quantity of spittle generated than for any actual logic in their arguments...
holy man Maulana Fazlur Rehman
...Deobandi holy man, known as Mullah Dieselduring the war against the Soviets, his sympathies for the Taliban have never been tempered by honesty...
, who heads an 11-party opposition alliance to topple the government.
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...a Pashtun blogger and advocate for girls' education from Mingora, in Swat. She is esteemed as an ambassador of international good will, even though she can't go home lest some fellow in a turban shoots her in the head again...attracted an avalanche of trolls who heaped abuse on the young champion of girls’ education. A couple of men on a cycle of violence opened fire on a police check-post not far from the Afghan border killing a young police constable.