Balochistan Unrest: Abducted taxi driver freed, two men slain

Balochistan crisis prevails with killings and kidnappings.

QUETTA: Police rescued a taxi driver from captivity and arrested two kidnappers after an encounter near Nasirabad.

The taxi driver Asghar Ali was kidnapped two months back from Sindh, police said.

In another incident, unidentified men shot dead a man at Eastern Bypass area of provincial capital.

According to police, the victim identified as Muhammad Jaffar, resident of Baloch Colony was on way to the City when armed assailants riding a motorcycle opened fire on him.

Separately, a man identified as Muhammad Tahir was shot dead in Killi Kamalu near Mir Ghahi Khan chowk in Sariab locality of Quetta.

Relatives of Muhammad Tahir held a demonstartion outside Quetta Press Club to condemn the murder.

Published in The Express Tribune, February 7^th, 2013.