PTI claimant Ikramullah Gandapur martyred in DI Khan self-murder attack
DI KHAN: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) claimant Sardar Ikramullah Gandapur was martyred as a self-murder bomber targetted his car in DI Khan’s Kulachi Tehsil on Sunday, a emissary commissioner said.
Gandapur was pronounced to be withdrawal his home for an choosing assembly when his jeep was targetted.
The PTI claimant was among 4 harmed in a conflict and succumbed to his wounds during a hospital. He was initial taken to District Headquarters Hospital though was afterwards shifted to a Combined Military Hospital’s (CMH) operation entertainment overdue to his injuries.
“Two military guards and Gandapur’s motorist were harmed in a attack,” a emissary commissioner told Geo News, adding that their condition is critical.
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Investigations are underneath way, a military said, adding that severed limbs of a self-murder bomber have also been recovered from a blast site.
The former cultivation apportion in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa was contesting a Jul 25 polls from PK-99 (DI Khan-V).
Gandapur’s brother, Israrullah, was killed on Oct 16, 2013 in a self-murder bombing while nod visitors on Eid-ul-Azha in his hometown of Kulachi.
He was a portion apportion in a Khyber Pakhtunkhwa supervision during a time of his genocide and inaugurated from a then-PK-67 constituency.
Gandapur was inaugurated on his brother’s chair after a by-election following his death.
Their third brother, Inamullah Khan Gandapur, is a comparison proxy who has served in a Federal Investigation Agency and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government.
Their father, Sardar Inayaltullah Khan Gandapur, served as a arch apportion and financial apportion of then-NWFP supervision in a 1970s.
Electioneering harmed by violence
A spate of militant attacks has taken place in a stream month. On Jul 10, a explosve targeted a convene by a Awami National Party (ANP) in Peshawar, martyring internal celebration personality Haroon Bilour along with 21 others.
An conflict on a Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) procession in Bannu on Jul 13 followed a comfortless Peshawar incident. The Bannu occurrence claimed lives of during slightest 4 people, while 10 others were harmed in a explosion.
Later a same day, one of a deadliest militant attacks in a country’s story took place that claimed a lives of over 150 people. Balochistan Awami Party (BAP) claimant Nawab Siraj Raisani was among a martyred when a self-murder bomber blew himself adult during Raisani’s choosing convene in Mastung’s Darengarh area.
A week after a Mastung blast, on Jul 16, ANP personality Daud Khan Achakzai was harmed after unclear persons non-stop glow on a guest residence of a party’s claimant Zmrak Khan Achakzai in Chaman.
Meanwhile, Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz personality and former sovereign apportion Sheikh Aftab Ahmed’s car was dismissed during in Attock as was a procession of former primary apportion Yousaf Raza Gilani’s son Ali Musa in Multan recently.