Police have failed to arrest the armed men who had killed a college student on May 28, 2017 and wounded two others at Pakha Ghulam area of Peshawar despite repeated contacts by people of the area with high ranking officials seeking justice. Speaking at a press conference at Peshawar Press Club on Thursday a senior citizen Saeed Khan said that his son Hafiz Muhammad Hamaad had sustained serious bullet injuries when an influential Malik Saeed Khan had opened indiscriminate fire with Kalashnikov to target his political rivals.
"Malik Saeed, district president of Pakistan People's Party and his group had an argument with Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Councilor Malik Wajid alias Sani over the installation of a transformer when the PPP leader opened fire at a local bazaar which resulted in killing his son and injuring two others including Sikandar and Naveed," he said. He said that the rival groups had escaped unhurt but innocent people had sustained bullet injuries wherein his son Hafiz Muhammad Hamaad, FSC student at Superior Science College Peshawar, succumbed to wounds at hospital while the rest of two were still fighting for life.
The accused, he alleged, were conveying life threats to relatives of the victims to force them for withdraw the FIR, saying that people of the area had planned to agitate if the provincial government fails to arrest the murderers.