Former cop gunned down

Author: By Our Correspondent

SHIKARPUR: A retired police officer was shot dead by unknown armed men over an old running dispute between two groups of the Qureshi and Jaffari communities at the taxi stand of Garhi Yasin, in the limits of Garhi Yasin Police Station. Muhammad Hajan Gadani, the SHO Garhi Yasin PS, informed this correspondent that Ali Nawaz Qureshi, aged around 55, a retired police officer, was sitting at the taxi stand when three identified armed assailants, riding on one motorcycle, opened indiscriminate firing on him. He was shifted to Taluka Hospital Garhi Yasin where he breathed his last.

Published in Daily Times, September 1st 2017.

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