By IRNA
Islamabad : Gunmen shot dead a leader of a banned extremist group in the Pakistani city of Peshawar last night, police said.
Muhammad Aslam Farooqi, a provincial leader of Sipah-e-Sahaba, was fired upon by two motorcyclists when he came out of his house at the Khati Chowk neighborhood, Deputy Inspector General Abdul Majeed Marwat said.
He said the police arrested one of the assailants but he did not give more details.
Witnesses said that people arrested the gunman with his pistol as he was trying to flee after the incident.
The suspect was later handed over to the police.
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