MIRAN SHAH: Former MNA and National Democratic Movement (NDM) chief Mohsin Dawar was injured in firing by police officials in North Waziristan’s Miranshah area, his party leader Bushra Gohar said.
Police claimed NDM supporters opened fire at a security camp in the area and the former lawmaker was injured in the leg after police retaliated.
Dawar and three injured NDM supporters were shifted to the District Headquarters Hospital Miran Shah for medical assistance.
Taking to her X handle, Gohar condemned the “cowardly attack” on Dawar, adding that she held the ECP responsible for the attack.
In incident occurred when Dawar was leading a protest against the delay in election results in NA-40 from where he was contesting.
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Dawar, the chief of the National Democratic Movement, was contesting from the district’s NA-40 constituency, where he had alleged there were attempts to rig the polling results. The incident comes more than a month after he survived a gun attack on his convoy in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s tribal district.
Earlier in January, Dawar’s convoy was attacked by unidentified assailants in North Waziristan. The local police said that while Dawar was campaigning when his convoy came under fire in Tehsil Miranshah village Tapi.
However, Dawar, shielded by his bulletproof vehicle, remained unharmed during the assault. The police responded swiftly and immediately relocated the politician to a nearby secure location, while law enforcement initiated a search for the assailants.
The police revealed that gunfire damaged the front and side windows of Dawar’s car, but the bullet-proofing ultimately safeguarded him from harm, allowing for his secure evacuation to a protected site.
