Funeral prayers: Mian Mushtaq laid to rest in ancestral graveyard
A vehicle carrying metal scanners to the funeral was targeted in a roadside blast.
A vehicle carrying metal scanners to the funeral was targeted in a roadside blast. PHOTO: EXPRESS/FILE
PESHAWAR:
Former provincial vice president of Awami National Party (ANP) Mian Mushtaq was laid to rest in his ancestral graveyard in Masho Khel village on Monday afternoon.
ANP leader Ghulam Ahmad Bilour, Pakistan Peoples Party’s Alamgir Khalil, Kamran Sadiq, former deputy speaker Khushdil Khan Advocate and thousands of other party workers and friends participated in the funeral prayers amid tight security arrangements.
The police had surrounded the entire area and bomb disposal squad (BDS) personnel had also been deployed, equipped with metal and explosive detectors.
The venue of the funeral prayers was changed at the eleventh hour as a security measure and participants were asked to assemble in a ground close to the village.
The Special Branch had also employed walk through scanners and every participant was required to pass through the gate in order to reach the ground where funeral prayers were offered.
Gul Rehman Mama, a party worker and close friend of Mian Mushtaq, was also killed in the deadly ambush along with Mushatq’s driver. He was also laid to rest in the nearby Suliman Khel village.
The blast
A Special Branch personnel was injured when the vehicle he was travelling in was targeted in a roadside bomb blast in Masho Khel on Monday morning.
The pick-up vehicle was loaded with metal detecting scanners being taken to Masho Khel village prior to Mian Mushtaq’s funeral.
The vehicle escaped largely undamaged but one Special Branch official Aftab Aalam was injured and taken to Lady Reading Hospital.
According to the police, the bomb weighed two kilogrammes.
Artillery rocket defused
BDS defused a long range artillery rocket in Kotla Mohsin Khan within the jurisdiction of the Banamarhi police station.
They said the rocket was of Russian origin and it was found in a garbage dump.
Published in The Express Tribune, January 14th, 2014.
Former provincial vice president of Awami National Party (ANP) Mian Mushtaq was laid to rest in his ancestral graveyard in Masho Khel village on Monday afternoon.
ANP leader Ghulam Ahmad Bilour, Pakistan Peoples Party’s Alamgir Khalil, Kamran Sadiq, former deputy speaker Khushdil Khan Advocate and thousands of other party workers and friends participated in the funeral prayers amid tight security arrangements.
The police had surrounded the entire area and bomb disposal squad (BDS) personnel had also been deployed, equipped with metal and explosive detectors.
The venue of the funeral prayers was changed at the eleventh hour as a security measure and participants were asked to assemble in a ground close to the village.
The Special Branch had also employed walk through scanners and every participant was required to pass through the gate in order to reach the ground where funeral prayers were offered.
Gul Rehman Mama, a party worker and close friend of Mian Mushtaq, was also killed in the deadly ambush along with Mushatq’s driver. He was also laid to rest in the nearby Suliman Khel village.
The blast
A Special Branch personnel was injured when the vehicle he was travelling in was targeted in a roadside bomb blast in Masho Khel on Monday morning.
The pick-up vehicle was loaded with metal detecting scanners being taken to Masho Khel village prior to Mian Mushtaq’s funeral.
The vehicle escaped largely undamaged but one Special Branch official Aftab Aalam was injured and taken to Lady Reading Hospital.
According to the police, the bomb weighed two kilogrammes.
Artillery rocket defused
BDS defused a long range artillery rocket in Kotla Mohsin Khan within the jurisdiction of the Banamarhi police station.
They said the rocket was of Russian origin and it was found in a garbage dump.
Published in The Express Tribune, January 14th, 2014.