Pakistan: Senior Leader Of Imran Khan’s PTI Gunned Down Outside Lahore Mosque

In yet every completely different incident of political violence in Pakistan, a senior leader of jailed former most good minister Imran Khan-led Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) birthday get jointly used to be shot useless external a mosque in Lahore on Friday.

In response to the regional police, Dr Shahid Siddique Khan, a senior leader of Imran Khan’s birthday get jointly, used to be shot at with the reduction of unidentified bike-borne gunmen even as he used to be popping out of a mosque in Lahore’s Valancia City after providing Friday congregational prayers.

“Dr Shahid Siddique Khan used to be popping out of a mosque in Valancia City in Lahore after providing Friday prayers when 4 unidentified males opened fireplace on him and fled on two motorcycles. He used to be shifted to a scientific manufacturer where he succumbed to his wounds,” a Lahore police spokesperson observed in a remark.

Khan used to be the proprietor of a non-public scientific manufacturer and former details secretary of PTI’s Punjab chapter.

A fine group has been constituted with the reduction of the Lahore police chief to probe Khan’s killing, the spokesperson observed, adding that  IGP Punjab Dr Usman Anwar has directed the Lahore police to all of the sudden arrest the perpetrators.

The PTI has been at loggerheads with the establishment ever basically through the truth that the May 9, 2023, riots wherein birthday get jointly persons attacked the state and navy installations following the arrest of former elevated-rated Imran Khan in an alleged corruption case.

Imran Khan’s PTI to number ‘grand opposition alliance’

Formerly in the day, a senior leader of Khan’s PTI birthday get jointly observed the jailed former most good minister has approved the formation of a “grand opposition alliance” with the reduction of expanding some of essentially the most sleek platform, Tehreek Tahafuz-e-Ayin-e-Pakistan, to behave as a ambitious anti-government circulation.

Addressing reporters alongside PTI secretary-admired Omar Ayub Khan external Rawalpindi’s Adiala Jail where the seventy one-12 months-outdated former cricketer-turned-flesh presser is lodged basically through the truth that final August, former Countrywide Assembly speaker Asad Qaiser observed the birthday get jointly has determined to develop the opposition alliance in a meeting with Imran Khan on Thursday, Geo News pointed out.

Qaiser introduced that the outdated ruling birthday get jointly would accumulate all opposition parties to run a ambitious anti-government circulation. He observed that the birthday get jointly’s forthcoming vigor demonstrate in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Swabi used to be aimed toward raising a “sturdy voice” for the liberate of the PTI founder and completely different detained leaders.

“This us of a will handiest be ruled according to the foundations and the Structure,” Qaiser emphasised.

All through his style out, Qaiser additionally rebuked the incumbent Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz-led coalition government over skyrocketing vigor costs. He observed the bloated electrical energy costs had been “unacceptable” for the inflation-hit an terrible lot.

The PTI leader additionally observed that they reduction Jamaat-e-Islami’s (JI) take a seat-in — underway on Rawalpindi’s Murree Avenue basically through the truth that July 26 — in opposition t the nice hike in vigor costs.

(With PTI inputs)