Traders’ leader shot dead in Peshawar

Haji Haleem Jan, who was targeted in Qissa Khawani Bazaar, succumbed to his injuries at the Lady Reading Hospital

PESHAWAR: A senior leader of Peshawar traders was killed by unidentified assailants who opened fire at him in Qissa Khawani Bazaar Tuesday morning.

“Haji Haleem Jan succumbed to his injuries at the Lady Reading Hospital, where he was rushed in after receiving multiple bullet wounds,” a police official deployed at the hospital told The Express Tribune.



Jan had been an active trader leader for the past four decades and was in his 70s. A resident of the provincial capital, Jan was head of the Anjuman-e-Tajiran Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and Tajir Grand Alliance Peshawar.

Meanwhile, SP City Haji Imtiaz told The Express Tribune that there was only one attacker who came from Kabari Bazaar, opened fire at Jan and fled.

“It was his routine to come to Qissa Khawani in the morning. We had provided him with a gunman but at the time of the attack the gunman was with his son in Saddar area,” the SP said, adding that the situation would be clear once the FIR is registered by the family members.

Peshawar’s Qissa Khawani Bazaar and localities surrounding it have seen most ruthless attacks over the past decade. Assailants at Meena Bazaar, Chowk Shaheedan, Imambargah Alamdar Karbala, Koocha Dilgaran, Dhaki Nalbandi, Soekarno Square, Cinema Road, Imambargah Qasim Baig, Kabari Bazaar, All Saints’ Church and twice at Kabuli have targeted this centre over the past few years.



On September 29, 2013, a powerful car bomb had torn through the famous bazaar, killing at least 48 people, including 17 members of a family.