The cases of murder and kidnapping are increasing amid the tension over elections in Pakistan.
A father killed his son in Pakistan over political differences. A fight broke out between father and son over which political party’s flag should be hoisted before the general elections in Pakistan.
Angered by this, the father killed his son. Pakistan’s Peshawar Police gave this information.
Father killed son with pistol
According to AFP report, the son had recently returned from work in Qatar. He had hoisted the flag of former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party at his home in Peshawar in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.
An argument broke out between father and son regarding this. District police officer Naseer Farid said, “The father prohibited his son from hoisting the PTI flag at home, but the son refused to take it down. He said he would not leave PTI.”
The son’s refusal “escalated the argument and in a fit of rage the father fired a pistol at his 31-year-old son,” police said.
The son died while being taken to the hospital. Police is searching for the father. It is being said about the accused father that he was associated with the nationalist Awami National Party (ANP). He had also hoisted the Awami Party flag at his house.
Awami National Party’s strings are very old
Talking about Awami National Party, it is a Pashtun nationalist, secular and leftist political party in Pakistan. The party was founded in 1986 by Abdul Wali Khan and its current president is Asfandyar Wali Khan, grandson of Bacha Khan.
The world knows Bacha Khan as Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan or Badshah Khan. In India, Abdul Ghaffar Khan is also called Frontier Gandhi or Seemant Gandhi.
Badshah Khan, who fought for the rights of Pashtuns, was awarded the highest honor Bharat Ratna by the Government of India in 1987.
Our candidates are being kidnapped – Imran Khan’s party
Like every time in Pakistan before the elections to be held on February 8, this time too violence continues. Candidates are being attacked with bomb blasts and guns.
Former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan’s party claimed in a statement on January 19 that intelligence agencies were openly torturing and abducting candidates supporting it ahead of the February 8 general elections.
A spokesman for Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party said former Faisalabad MLA and party-backed candidate Khayal Ahmed Castro has been allegedly abducted by personnel of intelligence agencies. Faisalabad is about 130 kilometers from Lahore. “Men dressed in plain clothes kidnapped Castro in front of cameras outside a district court in Faisalabad,” a spokesman for Khan’s party said.
Party general secretary Omar Ayub said, “Despite getting bail from the court, Castro was kidnapped by unknown people in broad daylight, which is highly condemnable.”