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Intelligence agency personnel gunned down in Multan
The Newspaper's Staff Correspondent | Updated August 09, 2017
MULTAN: An intelligence agency personnel was gunned down by unidentified gunmen in Cantonment Bazaar here on Tuesday morning.
Mahar Muhammad Yasir Manzoor was riding a motorcycle in Cantonment bazaar when the gunmen on a vehicle shot at and killed him in a drive-by shooting with pistols at 8:37am.
The deceased official was the resident of Maisli, Vehari district, and was associated with the Inter-Services Intelligence.
Police sources said it appeared to be a case of target killing.
The body was shifted to the Nishtar Hospital for a postmortem examination.
No case was registered by the time of filing of this news story at 8pm.
The duty officer of the Cantonment police station said the process to lodge the first information report was under way.
The shooting is the second incident of the killing of an official associated with the premier intelligence agency in the last five months.
On March 4, the bullet-riddled body of Inspector Umer Mubeen Jilani was found on Old Shujabad Road.
Jilani was kidnapped by gunmen on June 16, 2014, when he left his house in Garden Town for his office at around 8.30am.
The body was wrapped in an orange jumpsuit, similar to the ones worn by prisoners at US military’s Guantanamo Bay detention camp.
He was the nephew of former chief justice Tassaduq Husain Jilani.
Published in Dawn, August 9th, 2017
https://www.dawn.com/news/1350495/intelligence-agency-personnel-gunned-down-in-multan
The Newspaper's Staff Correspondent | Updated August 09, 2017
MULTAN: An intelligence agency personnel was gunned down by unidentified gunmen in Cantonment Bazaar here on Tuesday morning.
Mahar Muhammad Yasir Manzoor was riding a motorcycle in Cantonment bazaar when the gunmen on a vehicle shot at and killed him in a drive-by shooting with pistols at 8:37am.
The deceased official was the resident of Maisli, Vehari district, and was associated with the Inter-Services Intelligence.
Police sources said it appeared to be a case of target killing.
The body was shifted to the Nishtar Hospital for a postmortem examination.
No case was registered by the time of filing of this news story at 8pm.
The duty officer of the Cantonment police station said the process to lodge the first information report was under way.
The shooting is the second incident of the killing of an official associated with the premier intelligence agency in the last five months.
On March 4, the bullet-riddled body of Inspector Umer Mubeen Jilani was found on Old Shujabad Road.
Jilani was kidnapped by gunmen on June 16, 2014, when he left his house in Garden Town for his office at around 8.30am.
The body was wrapped in an orange jumpsuit, similar to the ones worn by prisoners at US military’s Guantanamo Bay detention camp.
He was the nephew of former chief justice Tassaduq Husain Jilani.
Published in Dawn, August 9th, 2017
https://www.dawn.com/news/1350495/intelligence-agency-personnel-gunned-down-in-multan