Murder attempt , Kazmi Hurt , Driver Killed

[Silverfalcon]

ISLAMABAD: Federal Religious Minister Hamid Saeed Kazmi has been injured in a firing incident in Islamabad on Wednesday.

Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani directed an inquiry into the murder attempt at the federal minister.

The federal religious minister was attacked when he was passing through Melody Market after he left his office.

Eyewitnesses said the assailants were two motorists riding a bike, who attacked at the minister with gunshots from left side, killing the driver, Muhammed Younis on the spot, who a bullet hit at his eye.

The vehicle bumped into a tree after the firing was over.

The attackers resorted to reckless indiscriminate fire, injuring the gunman of the minister.

The injured have been immediately shifted to Poly Clinic Hospital. The hospital sources said Hamid Saeed Kazmi received a bullet on his left leg and his knee bone is broken which being operated upon.

However, the doctors clarified that his condition is out of danger.

 

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[Silverfalcon]

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan's religious affairs minister was wounded and his driver killed in a drive-by shooting in Islamabad on Wednesday, police and hospital officials said.

Minister Hamid Saeed Kazmi was travelling in his official car when he was attacked near his office in the busy Melody Market area of Islamabad, local police official Mansha Hussain told AFP.

Doctors said that Kazmi's wounds were not critical.

‘A bullet has caused a compound fracture in the lower leg of the federal minister,’ government hospital chief Shaukat Hameed Kiani said.

‘His condition is stable but he is in a state of shock,’ Kiani said.

Another doctor in the hospital, Shazia Nazir, told AFP that Kazmi's driver was brought in dead with a bullet wound in his forehead and that the minister's guard was seriously injured.

Islamabad police chief Tahir Alam said that according to preliminary information, two men riding a motorcycle opened fire on the minister's car before fleeing.

Police were investigating and collecting evidence from the site, Alam told AFP.

‘It is a targeted attack, there is no security lapse,’ federal health minister Aijaz Jhakrani told reporters.

Interior secretary Kamal Shah said initial reports indicate the gunmen attacked the minister's car from the front.

‘He was provided security in the wake of threats. We are investigating if there was any lapse, it takes time to investigate,’ Shah said.

 

[Righteous_Fire]

Thanx for the post SilverFalcon!

but it has already been posted at:

http://www.defence.pk/forums/pakistans-war/32936-gunmen-spray-bullets-pakistan-minister.html

 

[Musalman]

Strange coz he was shot few meters aways from Islamabad's main police station. The people fired at the ministers many shots but no one came out from the police station.