What a country, people are not safe even in mosques. Dr Shahid Siddique Khan, a senior leader of Imran Khan-led PTI party, was shot at by unidentified bike-borne gunmen while he was coming out of a mosque in Valancia Town in Lahore after offering Friday congregational prayers.
In yet another incident of political violence in Pakistan, a senior leader of jailed former prime minister Imran Khan-led Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party was shot dead outside a mosque in Lahore on Friday.
According to the local police, Dr Shahid Siddique Khan, a senior leader of Imran Khan’s party, was shot at by unidentified bike-borne gunmen while he was coming out of a mosque in Lahore’s Valancia Town after offering Friday congregational prayers.
“Dr Shahid Siddique Khan was coming out of a mosque in Valancia Town in Lahore after offering Friday prayers when four unidentified men opened fire on him and fled on two motorcycles. He was shifted to a hospital where he succumbed to his wounds,” a Lahore police spokesperson said in a statement.
Khan was the owner of a private hospital and former information secretary of PTI’s Punjab chapter.
