Prayer leader shot dead.

TAXILA -- A prayer leader was shot dead in a mosque in a remote village in Pindigheb, Attock, on Sunday.

The victim was identified as 22-year-old Hafiz Hassan Raza, a native of Mansehra. He was deputed as the prayer leader by the local mosque committee in Chakki. Another young man from the same locality objected the committee's decision, stating his sleep was disturbed due to the sound of recitation from the loudspeaker.

The matter was taken up in a meeting of the mosque committee on...

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