PESHAWAR: Mansehra Assistant Commissioner (AC) Adil Waseem was injured on Saturday when unknown gunmen opened fire at his official vehicle in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Nowshera district, officials said.
Muhammad Asim, the spokesperson of Peshawar’s Lady Reading Hospital (LRH), said Waseem was “stable” and was receiving medical treatment.
Waseem came under attack in Nowshera’s Panah Kot area while on his way back from his native village Saleh Khana in the district, police officials said.
He was taken to LRH in an injured condition. Subsequently, a first information report was registered and investigation was under way, the officials added.
A search operation was also launched, with Nowshera District Police Officer Sonia Shamroz saying a team had been constituted and tasked to arrest those behind the attack.
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Source: Dawn · Umer Farooq, Ashfaq Yusufzai
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