Election Desk (DI KHAN): Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) candidate Sardar Ikramullah Gandapur was martyred as a suicide bomber targetted his vehicle in DI Khan’s Kulachi Tehsil on Sunday, family sources said.
Gandapur was said to be leaving his home for an election meeting when his jeep was targetted.
The PTI candidate was among four injured in the attack and succumbed to his wounds at the hospital. He was first taken to District Headquarters Hospital but was then shifted to the Combined Military Hospital’s (CMH) operation theatre owing to his injuries.
“Ikramullah’s guards and driver were injured in the attack,” the DPO Zahoor Afridi told ‘The Headquarters Daily’, adding that their condition is critical.
Investigations are under way, Zahoor Afridi the DPO said, adding that severed limbs of the suicide bomber have also been recovered from the blast site.
The former agriculture minister in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa was set to contest the July 25 polls from PK-99 (DI Khan-V).
Gandapur’s brother, Israrullah, was killed on October 16, 2013 in a suicide bombing while greeting visitors on Eid-ul-Azha in his hometown of Kulachi after whom he was elected on his brother’s seat after a by-election.
Their third brother, Inamullah Khan Gandapur, is a senior bureaucrat who has served in the Federal Investigation Agency and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government.
Their father, Sardar Inayaltullah Khan Gandapur, served as the chief minister and finance minister of then-NWFP government in the 1970s.