The Awami National Party (ANP) Peshawar City president Sartaj Khan was killed in a firing incident near the Gul Bahar police station in Peshawar on Saturday. According to police, some unknown armed men opened firing at the ANP leader near the police station leaving him critically injured. He was rushed to Lady Reading Hospital. However, he succumbed to his injuries at hospital.
The ANP leadership has strongly condemned the cowardly attack on its leader. Senior ANP Ghulam Ahmed reached the hospital. ANP workers protested outside the hospital. The dead body was handed over to his relatives after post-mortem. Khan earlier served as the general secretary of the ANP's city district and had been elected as the president for Peshawar in the recent intra-party elections. Khan's body has been sent for autopsy.
The party's parliamentary leader Sardar Hussain Babak condemned the incident. He decried that the government had failed to provide protection to its citizens while mourning the loss of the slain leader. "We are being targeted again and again," he said, adding that Khan was a long-time member of the party and losing him is a setback for ANP.
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