Former PTI senator Hidayatullah Khan was killed, along with two others, on Wednesday in an attack on his car in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Bajaur, the police said.
Malakand Regional Police Officer Muhammad Ali Khan Gandapur confirmed the deaths to Dawn.com, saying that the former senator’s car was targeted in an attack in Bajaur’s Damadola area.
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Secretary Nadeem Aslam Chaudhry condemned the attack, saying that it was very unfortunate.
“We will not be discouraged by such cowardly attacks. The martyrdom of the former senator and others will not go in vain,” he said, extending his condolences to the relatives of the three.
Hidayatullah joined the PTI in 2018, a move which was resented by local party activists. His father was former MNA Haji Bismillah Khan while his elder brother was former KP governor Shaukatullah Khan.
According to the Senate website, he was an independent senator from March 2018 to March 2024.
In January, he had submitted a resolution in the Senate Secretariat, which stated that the upper house of Parliament had taken note of an increase in attacks targeting candidates.
The resolution had urged the Election Commission of Pakistan and the Supreme Court to delay general elections for three months due to security challenges.
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