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TTP claims responsibility for killing of doctor, anchor, politician Sardar Soran Singh

 

M. M. ALAM

PESHAWAR: Reportedly Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has claimed responsibility for the assassination of doctor, TV anchor, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) politician Sardar Soran Singh.

Reacting to the incident PTI Chief Imran Khan tweeted: “Shocked at murder of PTIs KP MPA and Minorities Minister Soran Singh. KP govt must immediately set up inquiry. A great loss for all of us”.

Elected from district Buner MPA Sardar Soran Singh was special assistant to Pervez Khattak Chief Minister Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) on Minorities’ Affairs. Before joining PTI in 2011 he was associated with Jamaat’e’Islami for almost a decade.  

According to the district police chief Khalid Hamadani gunmen riding on two bikes appeared before his car and shot him dead on the spot near Pir Baba in Buner district on Friday.

Though KP government had provided him security he often used to travel to Buner without any protocol. A considerable number of Sikhs live in KP.

It is pertinent to mention here that some three years ago another MPA of PTI was shot dead in Hangu.

As the final rituals were performed, reportedly three suspects have been rounded up.

 

 

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M M Alam

M. M. Alam is a Pakistan-based working journalist since 1981. Karachi University faculty gold medalist Alam began his career four decades ago by writing for Dawn, Pakistan’s highest circulating English daily. He has worked for region’s leading publications, global aviation periodicals including Rotors (of USA) and vetted New York Times as permanent employee of daily Express Tribune. Alam regularly covers international aviation and defense-related events including Salon Du Bourget (France), Farnborough (United Kingdom), Dubai (UAE). Alam has reported thousands of events and interviewed hundreds of people in Pakistan, UAE, EU, UK and USA. Being Francophone Alam also coordinates with a number of French publications.