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Expatriate killed at doorstep in Mandi Bahauddin

By Our Correspondent 2023-04-03
GUJRAT: In Malakwal in Mandi Bahauddin district, a 50-year-old Pakistani expatriate was fatally shot, and his 45-yearold wife was injured by three unidentified attackers at their door in Islam Nagar locality on Sunday.

Zafar Iqbal had recently returned home from Muscat on March 12 when the gunmen entered their home and fired shots with a Kalashnikov. Both Zafar and his wife, Saadia Bibi, were injured and taken to the Malakwal TehsilHeadquarters Hospital, where Zafar died from his injuries. Saadia was transferred to the Aziz Bhatti Shaheed Teaching Hospital Gujrat in critical condition.

Police and forensic experts gathered evidence from the scene and registered a case against unidentified suspects under sections 302, 324, and 34 of the Pakistan Penal Code based on a report by Sher Muhammad Mughal, the father ofthe deceased.

KlLLED: On Sunday, a 30-year-old Tasawar Abbas was found shot dead in his home in Chak Pindi village in the jurisdiction of theIndustrial Estate 2 police.

Reports suggest that he was shot in the head while his family members were away.

The body was taken to Aziz Bhatti Shaheed Teaching Hospital for autopsy, and the police collected evidence from the scene. Anayat Bibi, the mother of the deceased, reported the incident to the police.

In another incident, the victim of the Wazirabad courtroom shooting was autopsied at the Gujranwala District Headquarters Hospital after doctors in the Wazirabad civil hospital declined to conduct a postmortem on Saturday night.

A medical board autopsied Naseer Ahmed Paroya.

Doctors at the Wazirabad civil hospital initially refused to conduct an autopsy, stating that the hospital was not equipped to constitute a medical board.

Thegunman,Ghaznafar Farooq, who killed Naseer in the courtroom, is a resident of Rahwali town near Gujranwala. He told the police that he did not have any direct rivalry with the deceased.

However, sources in the police revealed that the gunman had friendly relations with Zahid Warraich and Abbas Warraich, who were rivals of the deceased. The suspect killed Paroya to take revenge for the enmity of his friends.

The gunman was wearing a lawyer`s uniform to avoid body search at the entry gate of the judicial complex. The Wazirabad Sadar police station registered a case against the suspect under sections 302, 353, and 186 of the Pakistan Penal Code, section 7 of the AntiTerrorism Act, and the Punjab Arms Amendment Ordinance 2015-13-2(a).