ISLAMABAD: Unidentified gunmen yesterday shot dead a key local political leader in Pakistan’s restive north-western province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, police officials said.
Assailants killed Sabiullah Khan, senior vice president of the Charsadda chapter of the Awami National Party’s (ANP), the ruling party in the province. The ANP leader was attacked in Darabo village in Battagram area of Shabqadar district.
One other person was also injured in the attack
Shabqadar local police Wahid Gul has confirmed that the ANP leader was dead. He said that the Sabiullah “was going to his home village when he was shot dead.”
No militant group has yet claimed the responsibility of the attack. The body of the deceased has been shifted to the DHQ hospital.
Girl ‘destined’ to
die in acid attack
ISLAMABAD: A Pakistani mother who killed her teenage daughter by dousing her with acid for looking at a boy has told the BBC it was the girl’s destiny to die in this way.
Police in Pakistan-administered Kashmir arrested Mohammad Zafar and his wife Zaheen for the October 29 attack on their daughter Anusha, 15, who died in hospital two days later after suffering horrific acid burns.
So-called “honour” attacks are common in deeply conservative Pakistan.
Rights activists say more than 900 women were murdered last year after being accused of bringing shame on the family in some way.
Speaking from their police cells, the father told the BBC they had warned Anusha before about looking at boys, while the mother described how her daughter had begged for forgiveness.
Agencies
