Chakwal ASI among two killed in Islamabad

Separately, a man was murdered outside a mosque over 'personal enmity'

ISLAMABAD: A policeman was killed in a shootout and another man murdered by two attackers riding a motorcycle in Islamabad on Friday.

A police team from Chakwal raided a house in the federal capital's Jhangi Syedan’s Dhok Malyar area where a suspect, Imran Saleem, was living with his family.

The suspect opened fire on police, killing ASI Akhtar Hayat. Police officials said the ASI had suffered a bullet wound to his head.



Saleem, along with his brother and father, escaped and is still at large.

Later in the day, Haji Zaraqat was shot dead by two men riding a motorcycle after he left his car near a mosque on Park Road, in Chattha Bakhtawar where he went to offer Friday prayers.

Police believe the 32-year-old man was murdered over a personal  enmity.



The victim’s family maintained that a rival group was responsible for the attack.

Police officials said one of Zaraqat's brothers was already in jail in connection with a murder and the victim too had served time in prison.