Targeted Killing: BNP leader Rustom Marri shot dead

QUETTA: Gunmen shot dead prominent social activist Mir Rustom Marri in Dera Allah Yar in Jaffarabad Thursday evening.

Marri, who was also the district president of the Balochistan National Party (BNP), was sprayed with a volley of bullets as he stepped out of his house in Sobatpur Chowk.

He received multiple bullet wounds, which resulted in his instant death. Talking to the media, Rafiq Khoso, a leader of the Balochistan Republican Party (BRP), said that it was a political murder and accused the government of what he called the “extrajudicial killing” of the Baloch nationalist leader.

Marri remained a coordinator with international aid agencies and international humanitarian agencies providing help to the internally displaced persons of the Marri and Bugti tribal territories for years.

He was actively associated with the relief operation for the Baloch IDPs as well as the flood affected people of Jaffarabad.



Published in The Express Tribune, June 24^th, 2011.