Abdullah Gul,the son of former Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) chief retired General Hamid Gul, on Friday claimed that he had survived an attempt on his life, saying his vehicle reportedly came under fire in Islamabad,South Punjab News reported
Abdullah Gul said that he was narrow escaped when armed assailants opened fire on his vehicle on the Islamabad Expressway, however, he remained unhurt in the attack. Talking to media persons outside Safari Hospital, where the body of JUI-S chief Maulana Samiul Haq has been kept, Abdullah Gul said that it was an irreparable loss to the nation that Sami-ul-Haq was assassinated.
Abdullah Gul said that he was not aware of the assailants who targeted him.Now it is the duty of the law enforcing agencies to find the clue of the attackers.
Earlier in the day, Maulana Sami was assassinated at his residence in Rawalpindi when unidentified attackers reportedly stabbed the cleric to death when he was alone at home in the evening.
Maulana Sami, said to be around 83 years old, was the head of the Darul Uloom Haqqania seminary in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa's Akora Khattak.
He remained a senator between March 1991 and March 1994. He was elected on an Islami Jamhoori Ittehad ticket.
The news of his death comes at a sensitive time, with religio-political parties out on the streets protesting the Supreme Court's acquittal of Asia Bibi, a Christian woman, in a blasphemy case.
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