The News claims assailants who targeted Absar Alam arrested

 JournalismPakistan.com |  Published 3 years ago

ISLAMABAD—The News has claimed that the attackers who targeted former PEMRA Chairman Absar Alam have been arrested, revealing that a transnational gang was behind the assault.

"The attackers not only confessed to making a life attempt on Absar Alam but also admitted that they were tasked to hit Asad Toor, another journalist," the paper reported.

The culprits, however, had to change the plan because of the hype created after the attack on Absar.

"The attack was ordered from Germany, outsourced to a person in Sheikhupura who hired attackers from Khushab whereas the residential location of Absar and payment to target him were made in Lahore and Rawalpindi," the paper said.

"Zain Ghayyas was the task-master who assigned this project to Hammad Suleman. Zain, 32, a proclaimed offender in a murder case in his native Gujrat district, had moved to Germany. He tasked this to Hammad, 23, through his cousin, Shahnawaz, who lives in Greece."

Alam was shot in Islamabad last year in April.