ISLAMABAD – An unknown gunman shot at and injured former Chairman Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) and veteran journalist Absar Alam in the federal capital on Tuesday.
Police sources said the incident took place at a park in F-11/2 sector Tuesday evening when an unidentified persons opened fire at him, the sources said. The injured journalist was later rushed to a private hospital in a car by some of his friends where doctors pulled out bullet from his body after a surgery, the sources mentioned.
“At around 5:40pm, an assailant, aged 27/28, middle height and wearing bluish clothes opened fire at 50-year old Absar Alam with a 30 Bore pistol when he was on an evening walk in a park located in Street 20 of F-11/2 in Islamabad. After launching attack, the gunman fled on foot,” disclosed a police source.