A man has been charged with murder after allegedly fatally shooting the administrator of a community WhatsApp group who had removed him from the chat, police reported on Saturday, March 8.
Mushtaq Ahmed was shot and killed on the evening of Thursday, March 6, in Peshawar, the capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, a province near Afghanistan with a history of sectarian violence.
A Pakistani man, identified only as Ashfaq, has been charged with Mushtaq’s murder, according to police records reviewed by AFP and a local police official.
According to a statement from Mushtaq’s brother, Mushtaq had removed Ashfaq from the WhatsApp group following a disagreement. The two reportedly arranged to meet and settle their differences, but Ashfaq allegedly arrived with a gun and opened fire, killing Mushtaq.
Ashfaq’s anger was reportedly triggered by his removal from the WhatsApp group.
