Summary Sikandar is a regular user of strong drugs including Hashish and sleeping pills.
ISLAMABAD (Dunya News) - The gunman, who shut down Islamabad s heavily-guarded sensitive area close to the Parliament House and the Presidency for around five hours on Thursday, is a drug addict and a deranged man, according to the initial medical report.
According to Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS), Sikandar is a regular user of strong drugs including Hashish and sleeping pills. It was also stated that he was under the influence of drugs during the whole drama he staged in the federal capital.
Muhammad Sikandar, a resident of Hafizabad town in the central Punjab, is admitted to Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) for treatment of bullet wounds he had suffered in the leg and chest during the firing by the police’s snipers on Jinnah Avenue.
The wife has already declared the gunman a drug addict and said he often subjected her to torture. She, however, insisted that her husband had gotten rid of drug addiction earlier this year.
Kanwal was discharged earlier after being treated from PIMS, ATC has also sent her to jail on 7-day physical remand.
Accompanied by wife and two minor children and brandishing two semiautomatic guns, the Hafizabad resident had brought the capital city to a standstill for five hours by parking his car in the middle of the Jinnah Avenue near Parliament House and the Presidency and firing gunshots in the air.
He sent his wife to police several times for negotiations on strict enforcement of Islamic law in the country, but to no avail.
The tense standoff came to end when former Pakistan People’s Party MNA from the adjoining Rawalpindi city Zamurrud Khan showed up and shook hands with the gunman’s children before lunging forward in a bid to grab him by the throat.
Though the bid was unsuccessful, police’s sharpshooters opened fire seriously injuring the gunman before arresting him.
