A man alleged to be one of the suspects was later gunned down in Pirwadhai. PHOTO: FILE
A policeman was killed and another injured late Friday night after an unidentified man opened fire on them with a pistol.
Head Constable Iqbal Khan was shot twice in the abdomen and later died at the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS). Constable Azizur Rehman was shot twice in the leg but was “out of danger,” according to police officials.
Both the policemen from the Sabzi Mandi Police Station were patrolling in Sector I-10/1. According to the injured Rehman, they spotted some suspicious activity in a green belt and discovered four men huddled behind trees. Before they could make any inquiries, one of the men got up and fired at them.
He informed police control about the incident and officers from the nearby Sabzi Mandi Police Station reached the spot, but the suspects had escaped by then.
Head Constable Khan was pronounced dead by PIMS authorities. He is survived by his wife and four children.
Khan’s funeral took place in his hometown, Umerabad village in Peshawar district, on Saturday afternoon.
A police official requesting anonymity said “initial investigations about the I-10 incident suggest the suspects were robbers.”
Police searched the green area where the incident occurred and the surrounding slums but no arrests have been made, so far. A first information report was registered at the Sabzi Mandi Police Station.
Meanwhile, in what is being called a retaliatory killing, an unidentified person killed Muhammad Imran, a resident of Swabi, on Saturday, at the Pirwadhai Bus Terminal within the jurisdiction of Pirwadhai Police Station, Rawalpindi. Police sources said that Imran was involved in the Friday firing incident. A case has been registered by the Pirwadahi police, who are now investigating.
Published in The Express Tribune, January 5th, 2014.
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