Balochistan unrest: PML-N leader, truck driver, settler shot dead
Previously too settlers have been targeted in Gwadar and armed groups have claimed responsibility.
QUETTA:
Three people – a leader of PML-N, a settler and a trucker – were killed in various districts of Balochistan on Sunday.
According to police, PML-N leader Ameenullah Zehri was critically wounded when unidentified men opened fire on him in the Zehri tehsil of Khuzdar district. He died on way to hospital. Police said the murder appeared to be a case of target killing, but they were investigating the case from other angles too. In another incident, Jamil Ahmed, a tyre shop owner from Rahim Yar Khan was shot dead in broad daylight in the main bazaar of Gwadar by assailants riding a motorcycle.
Police said it seems to be a case of anti-settler killing. Previously too settlers have been targeted in Gwadar and armed groups have claimed responsibility for such assaults.
Moreover, unidentified men sprayed bullets on a truck carrying marble from Chagai to Karachi in Mastung district, killing the driver Muhammad Ashraf instantly and damaging the truck and the cargo.
Levies Force rushed to the site after the incident and shifted the deceased to hospital.
Levies sources said that some Baloch groups had warned truck drivers to avoid transporting resources of Balochistan to other provinces. However, no group had claimed responsibility for the attack till the filing of this report.
Published in The Express Tribune, July 16th, 2012.
Three people – a leader of PML-N, a settler and a trucker – were killed in various districts of Balochistan on Sunday.
According to police, PML-N leader Ameenullah Zehri was critically wounded when unidentified men opened fire on him in the Zehri tehsil of Khuzdar district. He died on way to hospital. Police said the murder appeared to be a case of target killing, but they were investigating the case from other angles too. In another incident, Jamil Ahmed, a tyre shop owner from Rahim Yar Khan was shot dead in broad daylight in the main bazaar of Gwadar by assailants riding a motorcycle.
Police said it seems to be a case of anti-settler killing. Previously too settlers have been targeted in Gwadar and armed groups have claimed responsibility for such assaults.
Moreover, unidentified men sprayed bullets on a truck carrying marble from Chagai to Karachi in Mastung district, killing the driver Muhammad Ashraf instantly and damaging the truck and the cargo.
Levies Force rushed to the site after the incident and shifted the deceased to hospital.
Levies sources said that some Baloch groups had warned truck drivers to avoid transporting resources of Balochistan to other provinces. However, no group had claimed responsibility for the attack till the filing of this report.
Published in The Express Tribune, July 16th, 2012.