Islamabad protesters refuse to bury slain JUI-F leader, two others.

Byline: Ikram Junaidi

ISLAMABAD -- Protesters twice blocked Murree Road at Bhara Kahu on Sunday over the assassination of three people, including a leader of Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam Fazal (JUI-F), on Saturday night.

After negotiations with Deputy Commissioner (DC) Hamza Shafqaat, the protesters opened the road but delayed the burial of the bodies till the arrest of the killers. Mufti Ikramur Rehman, 35, along with his son Samiur Rehman, 13, and Habibullah, a seminary student, was going to meet his father after Isha prayers when they were shot dead.

Students of seminaries and local residents blocked both sides of the busy road which connects Murree and other areas with Islamabad at 10am by placing the bodies on it. At 1pm, the DC reached the spot and it was decided that the road would be opened and the police would arrest the culprits till 4pm.

However, the suspects could not be arrested till 4pm and the protesters again placed the bodies on the road and blocked it.

Mufti Ikram was shot dead along with son, seminary student on Saturday night

The DC, along with his team, again reached the area and requested the protesters to open the road and assured them that the culprits would be arrested within 24 hours.

After a written agreement, the protesters opened the road but decided not to bury the bodies and shifted them to a mortuary.

JUI-F Information Secretary Molana Shafiur Rehman told Dawn that Mufti Ikram was the prayer leader of Msajid Siddiq-i-Akbar in Bhara Kahu.

His father Molana Saeedur Rehman, a renowned scholar, is the imam of Masjid-i-Jawad.

'As both mosques are...