=> MINGORA: Eight people including former NWFP educat
MINGORA: Eight people including former NWFP education minister and district Nazim Swat Miangul Asfandyar Amirzeb were killed in a bomb blast at Manglawar village near here on Friday.
Asfandyar Amirzeb was son of former MNA Miangul Amirzeb and nephew of Miangul Aurangzeb, former governor of NWFP and Balochistan provinces and grandson of the former Swat ruler.
The deceased was contesting elections from PF-81 Swat on Pakistan Muslim League (PML-Q) ticket. He along with other party workers were on election campaign to Manglawar village, five kilometres north-east of Mingora city, when the jeep they were travelling in, ran over an improvised explosive device (IED) planted by unknown people on the roadside in Shingray Killay.
Others who died with him were identified as Bakhtmand Khan, Nazim Union Council Manglawar; Zahir Shah, ex-chairman Technical Board Peshawar; Khurshid, an employee of Forest Department, besides Shehryar, Javed, Sardar and Azeem Khan.
Sources told The News that Asfandyar Amirzeb was on his way to attend a reception after offering his Juma prayers at the village mosque, which his party workers had hosted in his favour at Government Primary School, Kas Shingray in Manglawar.
Eyewitnesses said most of the bodies were mutilated beyond recognition except of Amirzeb. His funeral prayer will be held today (Saturday) at 11 am in his native Saidu Sharif town, former capital of the then princely state.
His family sources said body of the young politician would later be laid to rest next to his father’s grave at his ancestral graveyard.
Despite curfew clamped by the authorities for an indefinite period on Thursday evening soon after the assassination of PPP Chairperson Benazir Bhutto and the prevailing tense situation in Swat district, a large number of people took to the streets and reached the hometown of the deceased.
Source: The News
Date:12/29/2007
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