Gulbadin Hikmatyar’s tighten help gunned down in Peshawar
Haji Muhammad Farid was an critical figure in Afghanistan’s Hizb-e-Islami party. PHOTO: Express/File
PESHAWAR: A tighten help of maestro warlord and Hizb-e-Islami arch Gulbadin Hikmatyar was shot passed on a hinterland of Peshawar on Tuesday.
Haji Muhammad Farid alias Naqibullah, 60, was targeted by group roving on motorcycles in a Pishtakhara area, police told The Express Tribune.
Farid was Hikmatyar’s former secretary and also his father-in-law.
He was an critical figure in Afghanistan’s Hizb-e-Islami celebration and had no enemies, according to his sons.
A week ago, he went to Afghanistan and returned to Peshawar where he was now residing.
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Farid’s murdering is a latest in a fibre of attacks on critical Afghan clerics and pro Emarit-e-Islami total in a city.
Police trust that many Afghan Taliban, as good as their supporters, are being targeted by a Islamic State.
The dual groups are intent in a bloody dispute with any other for a control of Afghanistan.
The Pishtikhara military have purebred a box opposite unclear assailants and an review is underway.
A proprietor of Peshawar told The Express Tribune Farid lived in Najeeb Colony, Tajabad.
He combined that Farid was pounded outward a mosque when he was leave after charity his morning prayers.
The caretaker of a Pir Siraj seminary was killed in a identical attack near Academy Town a few months ago.
Waliullah, a orator for a Hizb-e-Islami in Pakistan, told The Express Tribune that Farid was an critical member of their celebration and had hold several critical posts in a past.
“He was a Kharoti by house and a tighten relations of celebration head Gulbadin Hikmatyar,” he added.
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