Discovery of missing PTI leader’s body in Peshawar triggers protests

The body of a local Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader, who had been missing for several days, was discovered in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, prompting a protest by his family and party supporters.

According to Express News, the deceased, named as PTI District Senior Vice President Yaqub Khan, was discovered dead in Peshawar’s Matni district.

As part of their protest, his family, together with several PTI workers, laid his body in front of the Bab-e-Khyber.

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The marchers, who had stopped the Jamrud Bazaar Road, demanded the arrest of those guilty for Khan’s killing and promised to continue their protest until the perpetrators were captured.

Meanwhile, Motorway Police said that at least four persons were found dead in a car parked along the M2 Motorway near Bhera, with a fifth located comatose.

Officers discovered the incident while conducting normal patrols near Bhera when they observed a car parked on the roadside.

When they approached the automobile to provide aid, they discovered five people in a semiconscious state. Everyone was promptly taken to Tehsil Headquarters Hospital Bhera for medical care.

At the hospital, physicians verified that four of the people had died, while the fifth, a 30-year-old guy called Umar Qasim, was still in serious condition.

On August 22, five bullet-riddled bodies discovered hanging from an electric pole in Pakistan last week and identified as Afghan citizens were returned to their families, according to Kabul’s embassy in Islamabad.

The victims were discovered at a college in Dalbandin, between the Afghan and Iranian borders in Balochistan. So yet, no individual or group has claimed responsibility for the deaths.

Police investigating the deaths stated last week that they thought the victims were the same people who appeared in a viral video on social media confessing to the assassination of Murad Note­zai, a major commander of the Iran-based proscribed terrorist organization Jaish al-Adl.