A Jamaat-i-Islami (JI) activist and his son injured when unidentified assailants opened fire on them in Ali Jan area of Khar tehsil (revenue unit) in Bajaur District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on May 8, reports Dawn. Khalilullah Jan, also the Al-Khidmat Foundation’s District president, along with his son was on way home after closing his medicine store in the district headquarters hospital’s medicine market when unknown assailants opened fire on them. No one has claimed responsibility for the attack.
Separately, one soldier was injured after militants opened fire from across the Pakistan-Afghanistan border in the Bajaur District in the night of May 7, reports Dawn. The Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said that militants from the Afghan side of the international border opened fire on a military checkpost in Pakistan. Pakistani troops responded promptly to the attack, the ISPR said, adding that a soldier was injured in the exchange of fire.