Deadly clash: Buchiana PPP president shot dead
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The Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Buchiana president was shot dead by unidentified assailants near Lundianwala police station on Sunday.
Buchiana police post in-charge Muhammad Shafiq Gujjar told newsmen that Rana Shafqat Ali was at the party office near Buchiana Chowk when some men riding a motorbike shot him. He said Ali died on the spot. He said the killers managed to flee.
Gujjar said it seemed that Ali was shot dead over a personal dispute. He said Ali’s family had not filed a formal complaint.
He said the body was taken to a morgue for autopsy. He said further action would be taken once the post mortem report was available.
Published in The Express Tribune, May 4th, 2015.