Attackers riding motorcycles targeted the victims as they were on their way to the Turbat bazaar. All of the deceased, identified as Ghulam Yasin and Abdul Razziq, were working at a construction site in Malikabad. Both belonged to Kandhkot.
“The motive behind the killing could not be ascertained, but police are trying to arrest the culprits involved in this heinous crime,” said Abdul Latif, a local police officer.
Meanwhile, two people, including a school teacher, were killed and two others injured in separate incidents of firing in Quetta. A schoolteacher, identified as Abdul Karim, was gunned down in the Kechi Baig area on the Saryab road.
Another man was gunned down and two others sustained injuries near the western bypass area over a land dispute. Eyewitness reports said that the attackers were all wearing masks when they barged into the house of Abdul Manan and opened fire on him. Manan died on the spot while two others sustained injuries. The deceased and injured were taken to Civil Hospital. The injured were identified as Mohammad Ishaq and Abdul Qayyum.
Published in The Express Tribune, August 11th, 2011.
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I still don't understand why baloch feel they are most deprive people. I think right now every single person from Karachi to hunza is deprive of basic needs like water, electricity and cost of food is way too much to survive. I do agree everyone should be treat equally and fairly but some people from Balochistan leaderships continue blackmailing government from last 60 years. They got lot of money and subsidies on daily necessities but unfortunately never gave or transfers this to ordinary baloch citizens, now we seeing that effects over there.
Cowards are recognised by their acts and not by their words. Those involved in killing of the labourers are coward and show their low pedigree. Some times tall claims are made over the traditions and culture of the area. For heavens sakes do you still pride in your history (there is none) and lineage.. I as a human being am ashamed of what your so called heroes (Urf – Bagoras) are doing
There are some miscreant people who are behind such killings who are working against the Baloch cause and every ordinary Baloch condemned and will continue condemning it on every platform but Baloch are being targeted on a much larger scale but no one dare to condemn that, Baloch will surely get the revenge from the enforcement agencies sooner or later. Hail Balochistan
We condemn the killing of every innocent whether he is a Panjabi or a Sindhi but Baloch shall be given their equal rights before its too late, The fire is already there since Nawab Bugti was martyred, don't fuel it as it has the capability to burn your own house @Army & ISI.
Why are the nationalists killing ordinary settlers who have nothing to do with the power struggle? These poor laborers didn’t usurp Baloch rights. I support the nationalists in their struggle for control over resources, gas royalty and provincial autonomy, but such killings are unacceptable. Believe me, the central government or the military establishment don’t care at all about the killings of settlers. If they think it’s a pressure tactic, they are wrong. They are weakening their own case.
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