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PTI candidate shot dead while canvassing in Bajaur

ECP calls meeting to discuss law and order situation in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan as Feb 8 polls nearing.

By Staff Writer

ISLAMABAD: While the Election Commission of Pakistan has convened a meeting on Thursday to discuss law and order situation in Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa before holding of the general elections on February 8, unknown gunmen shot dead a candidate affiliated with the PTI in Bajaur tribal district of KP on Wednesday.

Officials said that police and other officials would brief the meeting in ECP regarding the overall security situation in the two provinces in the wake of repeated terror attacks on security forces in the provinces.

According to media reports, the police in Bajaur identified the victim candidate as Rehan Zeb Khan. He was killed while running his election drive in Siddiqabad area of Bajaur.

A day earlier, a blast ripped through a rally of the PTI in Sibi area of Balochsitan in which four people were killed and scores of others injured.

The PTI in a post on social media networking platform of X condemned the killing of the candidate for National Assembly in the Bajaur district of KP. It demanded a proper investigation and arrest of the culprits involved in the murder. 

Staff Writer
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