Unidentified masked armed men ‘abducted’ Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Minister for Public Health Engineering Fazal Shakoor Khan at gunpoint near the exit of Peshawar Motorway in broad daylight on Monday afternoon, alleged his staff.

Axar.az reports, citing Dawn, that the minister, according to his staff and leaders of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf, was on his way to provincial capital when unidentified masked men intercepted his car and shifted him to an undisclosed location.

Alam Khan, the personal secretary to minister, said that Mr Khan was going to Peshawar to attend a meeting when armed men in police uniforms rounded him up at the exit of Peshawar Motorway in the limits of Chamkani police station.

A video shared on social media platforms showed several masked armed men approaching the minister’s car. In the video, one of the masked men grabs the door of the car to open it while another is seen firing shots at the tyres of moving vehicle.