<div><b><span style="font-size: 1rem;">Gunmen killed 11 people including a prominent local politician in northwest Pakistan, police said Tuesday, an ambush blamed on a decades-long vendetta between families.</span><br></b></div><div><br></div><div>Inter-family feuds are common in Pakistan, but in the mountainous northwestern region where communities abide by traditional tribal honour codes they can be particularly protracted and violent.</div><div><br></div><div>Police said 42-year-old Atif Munsif Khan, leader of a district council in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, was killed on Monday night in the town of Havelian, 33 kilometres (20 miles) north of Islamabad.</div><div><br></div><div>District police official Omar Tufail told AFP that "up to five people opened fire from two sides" on a vehicle carrying Khan and 10 others, including bodyguards and a police escort, "killing them all on the spot".</div><div><br></div><div>"The vehicle caught fire as a result and all on board were burned alive and the charred bodies are now beyond recognition," he said.</div><div><br></div><div>Tufail said the Khan family registered a police complaint "blaming the assassination on their rivals" in a feud "said to be almost five decades old", which also claimed the life of Khan's father and grandfather.</div><div><br></div><div>"Dozens of people from both sides have been killed as a result of this family feud so far," he added.</div><div><br></div><div>Another local senior police official, Sajid Tanoli, confirmed the incident and ruled out the involvement of militant groups such as the Pakistan Taliban which have long thrived in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.</div><div><br></div><div>Khan was a member of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party, led by former prime minister Imran Khan, although the men were not related. - AFP&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>