Rajanpur
Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz’s (PML-N) twice ex-MPA Sardar Atif Mazari was gunned down by his son Basit Mazari in his native town Rajanpur on Wednesday night. According to police, Sardar Atif Mazari was brought to the Rajanpur District Headquarters Hospital in a critical condition but he could not survive.
Police have registered the FIR on the report of Rehan Mazari, the younger son of deceased politician, whose body had been handed over to the family after postmortem examination. Family sources said that Atif Khan Mazzari was chairing a panchayat at his place in Umar Kot where he was accidentally shot dead by his son.
After the incident, the area police have registered FIR on a complaint of the deceased son Rehan Khan Mazzari which stated that Abdul Basit Mazzari killed his father Atif Mazzari. The mental illness of the accused was stated as a reason for the murder. It is pertinent to mention here that he was an activist of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and twice remained MPA of Punjab Assembly.—INP
