SAA event in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Jani Khel town of Bannu District area, Pakistan on Mon 5th December 2022

A Frontier Constabulary (FC) soldier was shot dead along his son by unidentified assailants and former’s head hanged on a tree in Jani Khel town of Bannu District in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in the night of December 5, reports Dawn. The victims were identified as FC soldier Rehman Zaman (45), and his son Shahid (18). FC soldier Rehman’s widow, in her statement, told the Police that her husband and son were asleep in the house in night when they heard loud noises. When they came out of the bedroom, they saw around 20 armed men in the compound. She claimed that unidentified gunmen shot the victims and then beheaded her husband’s body. The assailants took away the head with them, the widow said, claiming that it was a result of her husband’s FC job. Locals claimed that the assailants hung the head from a tree in the Bachki market area which was spotted by tribesmen in the morning who then informed the Police.