Overview

• Punjab’s Crime Control Department said assailants in two vehicles opened fire on a convoy near Rahim Yar Khan during Butt’s road transfer to Lahore.
• Officials reported at least one police officer was wounded, an FIR was registered in Rahim Yar Khan, and the attackers initially managed to seize Butt from custody.
• Authorities said a subsequent firefight left Butt critically injured; he died en route to a hospital and police later took custody of the body.
• Butt had been arrested in Dubai with Interpol’s assistance and handed to Pakistani authorities, arriving in Karachi a day before the ambush for transfer in the Ameer Balaj Tipu murder case.
• Police teams are pursuing the attackers, raiding properties linked to Gogi Butt and probing related gunfire reported near his former Lahore residence, with forensic analysis of recovered casings underway.