PESHAWAR: A case has been registered at Chamkani Police Station over the alleged abduction of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Minister for Public Health Engineering Fazal Shakoor.

According to police, the case was registered on the complaint of the provincial minister’s brother, with unidentified armed men nominated in the FIR.

The FIR states that Fazal Shakoor was travelling to attend a provincial assembly session and was accompanied by his driver and a police constable.

According to the complaint, armed men intercepted the official vehicle near the motorway toll plaza and forced the minister, his driver and the police constable out of the vehicle. The attackers allegedly opened fire at the tyres of the government vehicle before taking the three men to an undisclosed location at gunpoint.

The official vehicle was later found parked near the toll plaza, according to the FIR.

KP Assembly Speaker Babar Saleem Swati accused the Inspector General of Police, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, of misconduct over the incident. He alleged that armed, masked men abducted the provincial minister in the presence of police personnel.

Meanwhile, KP Chief Minister Sohail Afridi strongly reacted to the incident, saying that there would be a reaction whenever anyone picked up a person in plain clothes. He claimed that video footage of the attack on Fazal Shakoor was available.