Senior Pakistani analyst and writer Raza Rumi, who was shot at allegedly by sectarian extremist group lashkar-e-Jhangvi (leJ), has left the country “for a few months”.
Rumi, a vocal critic of the Taliban was shot at in lahore on March 28 in which his driver was killed. “I am out for a few months. Will be with my relatives and family abroad,” Rumi said, adding that he will be back.
Need some time off to regain sanity!” “He had no choice but to leave as the authorities felt no embarrassment in letting him know that they could not guarantee his life if he stepped outside his lahore home,” Ali Dayan, outgoing Pak director said in an article.