Malik | Pakistan

PESHAWAR: Senior police officials on Thursday claimed that suspects in the Dr Asif Malik gun attack case had been identified and would soon be arrested. “We have traced the persons who opened fire on urologist Dr Malik. They have been identified and we are closing in on them,” a senior police official told Dawn. He said that the motive behind the attack was still not known and the further details of the case would be made public after the suspects were arrested and interrogated. Urologist Dr Malik was reported to be in stable condition at a hospital after coming under fire close to his residence in the University Town area here on Tuesday night. After the attack, Dr Malik, a pioneer of kidney transplantation in the province, was shifted to the Peshawar General Hospital by his driver and remained under treatment in the intensive care unit. His condition is said to be stable. On Wednesday, senior police officials claimed that the “Dr Malik attack case has almost 80 per cent been concluded.” An official told Daw...