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Police claim resolving STPP leader Jiskani’s murder

By Our Correspondent
July 21, 2021

SUKKUR: Tando Allahayar Police have claimed to have resolved the high profile murder of Vice President Sindh Tarraqi Pasand Party Altaf Jiskani, who was gunned down in an ambush in November 2020. SSP Tando Allahyar Rukhsar Ahmed Khuhawar confirmed that the police had arrested following an encounter, a most wanted criminal, Aslam Rind, and his brother in law Ali Ahmed Khatyan, who were already nominated in Altaf Jiskani’s murder. The police also recovered two Kalasnikov assault rifles and bullets from their possession.

Terming the murder of the STPP leader a planned action, SSP Khuhawar said the police traced the killers in a hideout in Sultanabad where they had returned to from Balochistan. One of the suspects, Bholo Rind, was already in police custody.