In Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, a father killed his son after the two couldn’t agree on which political party flag to fly in the run-up to the general election on February 8, according to the police.
The dispute started when the son, who had just returned from a job in Qatar, raised the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party’s flag at the family’s Peshawar suburbia. Imran Khan was the previous prime minister.
According to district police official Naseer Farid, “the father forbade his son from hoisting the PTI flag at home, but the son refused to take it down and abandon PTI.”
“The argument escalated, and in a fit of anger, the father fired a pistol at his 31-year-old son, before fleeing the house.”
On the route to the hospital, the son passed away.
The father, who had flown the flag of the nationalist Awami National Party in the past, is being sought for by the police.
The upcoming elections in Pakistan, which are set for February 8, are frequently tainted by bloodshed as gun and bomb attacks target political candidates.
According to commander Moazzam Jah Ansari, AFP, about 5,000 paramilitary Frontier Constabulary (FC) personnel will deploy to the northwest region of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa that borders Afghanistan during the first week of February.
A summary requesting the deployment of the Pakistan Army and members of the civil armed forces to assist the civil institutions in conducting a free, fair, and peaceful general election was approved by the caretaker federal government one day earlier.
The development occurred during a federal cabinet meeting chaired by acting prime minister Anwaar-ul-Haq Kakar.
According to a statement from the Prime Minister’s Office, “the troops will perform duties in sensitive constituencies and polling stations and will also act as a rapid response force.”
The Pakistan Army and members of the civil armed forces would be stationed at key voting places throughout the nation during the upcoming general elections, as approved by the federal cabinet in unanimity on the Ministry of Interior’s suggestion.
