Personal enmity: PTI leader gunned down in Lakki Marwat

Police say Malik Hukmat Khan Wazir was returning home from a religious congregation when targeted

BANNU: A Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader was gunned down over “personal enmity” in Bannu district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) on Friday night.

Malik Hukmat Khan Wazir, a close aide of K-P Chief Minister’s Adviser Muhammad Wazir, was shot dead within the jurisdiction of the Lakki Marwat police station.

Hukmat was targeted while he was returning home after attending a religious (tableeghi) congregation.



According to the police, he had a land dispute with one of his relatives that had intensified during the last two days. The police have registered a case and are probing into the murder.

Last month, another PTI leader was shot dead over an old enmity in Kalas locality of Haripur. Tehsil council member Malik Haq Nawaz was buying groceries from a roadside stall when a car stopped and four men alighted, lined up, and opened fire with automatic weapons.

Nawaz went down in a hail of bullets and was dead before he hit the ground. A bystander and his son were injured in the injured.