Timeline – Courthouse Murder – Murdered with six shots from a handgun
Peshawar – Lawyer killed by a colleague in revenge.
Tragedy in the courtroom in Pakistan. A prominent former president of Pakistan’s Supreme Court Bar Association was killed by a colleague in revenge, according to local authorities.
According to a first reconstruction of the incident, the victim was chatting with other colleagues in the courtroom when a younger lawyer and colleague drew his gun and shot the former president with six shots at point-blank range.
The man was taken to the hospital but died on arrival.
After the murder, the killer turned himself in to the police.
January 16, 2023