RECORDER REPORT

PESHAWAR: Local police on Sunday registered a murder case of the Awami National Party (ANP) district Peshawar president Sartaj Khan, who was killed by unknown motorcycle riders in Peshawar on Saturday.

The case was registered by Gulbahar Police Station on the complaint of Shamsul Taj, brother of the deceased ANP leader.

Shamsul Taj in the first information report (FIR) said that he was present in Services Hospital when he received information about his brother’s murder and when he reached the Lady Reading Hospital (LRH) that owner of a general store told him that as soon as Sartaj sat in his vehicle after purchasing some items from the shop, unknown armed men came on motorcycle and opened fire on him. Sartaj received several bullet injuries and died on the spot.

The brother of the ANP leader said they have no enmity with anyone. Police has filed a case against unknown culprits under Section 302 of Pakistan Penal Code and initiated investigation.

Meanwhile, the ANP provincial general secretary Sardar Hussain Babak said the government has failed to provide security to the common man, particularly to the ANP activists.