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Traffic remains choked on Murree Road at Bhara Kahu on Sunday following a protest by seminary students against the killings. White Star
ISLAMABAD: Protesters twice blocked Murree Road at Bhara Kahu on Sunday over the assassination of three people, including a leader of Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam Fazal (JUI-F), on Saturday night.
After negotiations with Deputy Commissioner (DC) Hamza Shafqaat, the protesters opened the road but delayed the burial of the bodies till the arrest of the killers. Mufti Ikramur Rehman, 35, along with his son Samiur Rehman, 13, and Habibullah, a seminary student, was going to meet his father after Isha prayers when they were shot dead.
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Prayer leader among three shot dead in Islamabad
National
February 28, 2021
ISLAMABAD: Three people, including an Imam-e-Masjid (prayer leader) and two teenagers were gunned down under mysterious circumstances outside a masque in Bhara Kahu on Saturday night, police sources said. The assailants could not be identified. Police have started investigation on all aspects to trace the killers. The police sources, quoting eyewitness account, said the people living in the surrounding areas rushed to the scene and found three bodies lying in the pool of blood on the doorstep of the mosque. They informed the local police station and the police took the dead bodies in the custody and shifted them to hospital for post mortem. SP (City) M Umar Khan told The News that Qari Ikramur Rehman, Imam of Masjid-e-Siddique-e-Akbar, who was targeted, was running a madrassa attached to mosque. He said Qari Ikram was leaving the mosque for his residence along with his son Samiur Rehman, 13, and a studen