A 🅷senior leader of jailed fo⛦rmer prime minister Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party was shot dead in Lahore while he was coming out of a mosque after offering Friday prayers, police said.
“Dr Shahid Saddique Khan was coming out of a mosque in Valancia Town🧸 in Lahore after offering Friday prayers when four unidentified men opened fire on him and fled on two motorcycles. He was shifted toꦰ a hospital where he succumbed to his wounds,” a Lahore police spokesperson told PTI.
The spokesperson said th𒅌at the Lahore police chief has consꦍtituted a special team to probe the incident.
Khan was the owner of a private hospital and former informat⛦ion secretary of PTI’s Punjab chapter.
IGP Punjab Dr Usman Anwar has directe🌠d the Lahore police to immꩵediately arrest the perpetrators.
The PTI has been at loggerheads with the establishment ever since the May 9, 2023, riots in which party workers attacked the staไte and military installations following the arrest of Khan in an alleged corruption case.
