RAWALPINDI: A former deputy director of Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) and his wife were gunned down by unidentified persons in their house located in the limits of Mandra police early on Friday, police said.

Nadia Mazhar, a resident of Gujar Khan, lodged an FIR with the Mandra police stating that her father Mazhar Hussain and mother Ghousia Bibi lived with her brother Mohammad Ramzan.

She said her brother had gone to duty whereas his wife and children were in their room on Thursday night. She said her parents were sleeping in the courtyard of the house while she was in a separate room.

At about 3am, the complainant said, she heard gunshots and thought it to be some tyre burst outside.After sneaking out from the window, she slept again. However, she woke up at 5am and found her parents lying dead on their beds.

She said there were gunfire wounds on her parents’ faces. She said her parents were murdered by unidentified persons for unknown reasons.

Senior police officers reached the crime scene and later the bodies were shifted to hospital for postmortem. Police have registered a murder case and launched an investigation to trace the killers and ascertain the motive behind the incident.

The complainant said her parents had no enmity with anyone nor had any property dispute.

“Obviously, it is not a house robbery; it is something else,” said Senior Superintendent of Police (Operations) Hafiz Kamran Asghar.

Meanwhile, Israr Hussain, a resident of Chakwal and an employee of the Rawalpindi Art Council, died after suffering an electric shock at his shop located in Kartarpura Mohalla in the limits of Banni police on Friday.

Published in Dawn, July 6th, 2024