An Islamabad policeman passed away in a hospital on Sunday after being injured during protests in the capital on Saturday, police said.
In a statement posted on X, Islamabad police said that “miscreants kept torturing Shah after abducting him.”
According to the statement, he was posted at Chungi No 26 for law and order duty.
It further added that he was part of the Investigations Wing, and was a resident of Abbottabad. He joined the police force in 1988.
“He was due to retire in three months after completing his police service,” the statement said.
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif strongly condemned the incident and expressed his sympathies over Shah’s death “at the hands of PTI protesters”.
“PTI has always adopted a path of violence under the guise of protest,” a statement posted by the prime minister’s digital media account said on X.
“This same political party has attacked the government building and broken the gates of Parliament House in the past,” the statement said.
The premier directed that “those involved in the incident” be brought to justice. Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi also expressed his condolences to the family of Shah.
He instructed the inspector general of police (IG) Islamabad to arrest the miscreants who tortured Hameed, according to a statement on X by the Ministry of Interior.
