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Colonel gunned down in Pakistan

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IANS Islamabad

A colonel of the Pakistan Army was killed on Friday in a firing incident in Pakistan's Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province.

A police official from Peshawar's Hayatabad area said that Colonel Tariq Ghafoor, who was stationed in Quetta, was on his way to a nearby mosque to offer prayers when he was targeted by unidentified men, reports Dawn.

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First Published: Mar 11 2016 | 3:52 PM IST

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