Provincial minister for higher education Qazi Muhammad Asad has been implicated in a murder case, motivated by a family feud, which has already claimed the lives of five members of the victim’s family.
The minister was nominated in the FIR by the Haripur police on Monday only after the aggrieved family blocked GT Road by placing the victim’s body in the middle.
As Abdul Majeed entered a shop in the main bazaar, Yamin, the minister’s gunman and two others opened fire, killing him on the spot, according to the complainant, Zaheer Gul, the victim’s younger brother.
The brothers were on their way to their native village, Nartopa, when Majeed stopped to buy grocery items from the shop. Majeed owned an eatery in the district courts.
Gul accused the provincial minister of supporting criminals since Yamin was also nominated in the murder of his younger brother.
A criminal case has been registered under section 109 of the Criminal Procedure Code against ANP’s provincial minister for abetting the murder.
Majeed’s family members blocked GT Road for about two hours to protest against their rivals’ political influence.
However, after the police registered an FIR against the provincial minister and three principal accused and assured the family they would soon be arrested, the protesters removed the barricades and took the body to their native village for burial.
On June 8, last year, Majeed’s daughter, his son and a brother were killed, while six others, including Majeed had sustained bullet wounds when the rival groups clashed over a marital dispute.
About four months back, Majeed’s second brother was also shot dead and Yamin was nominated in the FIR, but the case against him was dropped due to the minister’s influence, Gul told the police.
Published in The Express Tribune, March 21st, 2012.
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