An assistant sub-inspector (ASI) of police embraced martyrdom after being shot by unknown assailants in Lakki Marwat on Monday. The incident took place near Wanda Jogi in the jurisdiction of Pezu Police Station in Lakki Marwat. According to a police spokesperson, the victim was identified as ASI Mumtaz Ali, who was performing his duty as a moharrar at City Police Station Tank. He was on leave and had come to his village. 

The spokesperson said that while returning, Mumtaz Ali was travelling in a car when, at Wanda Jogi, he was forced out of the vehicle by occupants of a pickup truck and shot dead. Police said the body of the martyred official was shifted to a local hospital for post-mortem examination, and investigations into the incident has been initiated. 

Meanwhile, last night in another separate incident in the Singota area of Swat, Constable Hammad Ali, who was serving in the Elite Force in Lower Dir and had come home on leave, was also killed.

Credit: Independent News Pakistan (INP)