Unidentified gunmen on Sunday shot dead a serving colonel of the Pakistan Army in Hayatabad Phase 3.
According to Hayatabad Police, two assailants on a motorcycle targeted Col Tahir Azeem in Abaseen Market when he was on his way home from a nearby mosque.
Local police said Tahir Azeem expired on the spot after sustaining multiple bullet wounds.
According to reports, Col Tahir Azeem’s brothers— Waqas and Shakil— were also shot dead in separate attacks in 2004 and 2005. Both Waqas and Shakil, however, had no association with the armed forces.
Tahir Azeem was posted in Rawalpindi; he was in Hayatabad to visit his family.
The PPP activist said Azam Afridi, a former district Peshawar nazim, was named member of the committee. He, however, quit the committee on the very next day over disagreement with the party’s provincial leadership on the election alliance with the ANP.
Some other party leaders, including provincial president Senator Khanzada Khan, former provincial president Anwar Saifullah Khan, Zahir Ali Shah, Rahim Dad Khan, former MNA Najamuddin Khan, Asma Alamgir and provincial President of women wing MPA Nighat Orakzai, are also members of the committee on local government elections.
The committee is tasked with supervising the process of selecting candidates and submitting report to the party’s leadership.
On other hand, PPP provincial general secretary Mohammad Humayun Khan said the decision to form tripartite alliance with the ANP and JUI-F was taken in consultation with the party’s central leadership and that anyone opposed to it couldn’t be sincere with the party.
