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India-Pakistan

Pak Purge: Islamabad court summons Imran Khan in 'un-Islamic nikah' case

2023-09-22

[GEO.TV] A district and sessions court in Islamabad issued a summon of Pakistain Tehrik-e-Insaf
...a political party in Pakistan. PTI was founded by former Pakistani cricket captain and philanthropist Imran Khan. The party's slogan is Justice, Humanity and Self Esteem, each of which is open to widely divergent interpretations....
(PTI) Chairman Imran Khan
...aka The Great Khan, who who convinced himself that playing cricket qualified him to lead a nuclear-armed nation with severe personality disorders...
for September 25 in an "unIslamic nikah" case with his third wife Bushra Bibi.

Civil judge Qudratullah has asked the court staff to issue the summon to present the PTI chief in court to the Attock jail superintendent.

The former prime minister was arrested from his Zaman Park residence in Lahore on August 5 after being convicted in the Toshakhana case with accusations of misusing his 2018 to 2022 premiership to buy and sell gifts in state possession that were received during visits abroad and worth more than Rs140 million ($635,000).

Since his arrest, he was shifted to the Attock jail.

While the Islamabad High Court (IHC) had overturned a lower court's decision to jail him, he remains behind bars due to his arrest in the cipher case.

The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) officially arrested the ousted premier — who was removed from power via a parliamentary vote in April last year — and Shah Mehmood Wormtongue Qureshi
Mehmood <q>Wormtongue</q> Qureshi

...a Pak political shape-changer. He is undistinguished except for his habit of periodically needing to have his lips reattached...
in the cipher case last month after booking them under the Official Secrets Act.

Qureshi was taken into custody from his residence in Islamabad in the same case on August 19 while Khan was arrested in the cipher case while he was serving the sentence in Attock jail.

IMRAN-BUSHRA MARRIAGE CASE
In May of this year, a district and sessions court in Islamabad rejected the plea challenging the nikah (marriage) of Imran Khan with Bushra Bibi.

The application, according to the court, was "inadmissible" and fell outside its jurisdiction but, in July another Islamabad court dismissed the civil court's verdict.

Additional District and Sessions Judge (ADSJ) Islamabad Muhammad Azam Khan, back then, had remanded the case to a civil judge.

The petitioner, Muhammad Hanif, had claimed that Bushra Bibi was divorced by her former husband in November 2017 and married Khan on January 1, 2018, despite the fact that her Iddat period had not ended, "which is against the Sharia and Moslem norms."

The complainant submitted in the court the statements of Mufti Muhammad Saeed — who conducted the marriage between Imran and Bushra, and Awn Chaudhry — Imran's close friend — one of the witnesses at the wedding.

Saeed, who solemnised the couple's Nikah, had said that the PTI chief married Bushra Bibi during the latter's iddat (the time a woman goes into isolation after her husband dies or divorces her), despite knowing everything.

In his statement to a lower court, Saeed said he had solemnised Khan's Nikah with Bushra Bibi on January 1, 2018, over the assurance of a woman claiming to be the former first lady's sister.

"Then the former premier contacted me again in February 2018 and requested me to solemnise his Nikah with Bushra Bibi again as the first time it was against the Shariah," Saeed stated before the court.

He said that the first time when the Nikah was solemnised, Bushra Bibi's Iddat hadn't ended.

He quoted Khan as saying that Bushra Bibi had been divorced on November 2017 and that there was a "prediction" that the PTI chairman would become the prime minister of Pakistain if he married Bushra Bibi.

Mufti Saeed added that the first Nikah was illegal, which had been solemnised based on the "prediction".

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India-Pakistan

3 including central JUI-F leader dead as explosion rocks Chaman in Balochistan

2019-09-29

[DAWN] At least three people, including a leader of the Jamaat Ulema-e-Islam
...the political wing of the Pak Taliban...
-Fazl (JUI-F), were killed and more than a dozen others injured in a kaboom that rocked the Chaman area of Balochistan
...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it...
's Qilla Abdullah District, Chaman Assistant Commissioner Yasir Dashti said.

According to police officials, the bomb was an improvised bomb (IED) which was planted in a cycle of violence parked on the roadside.

The explosion initially left Maulana Muhammad Hanif, a central leader of the JUI-F, critically injured. He was being shifted to Quetta when he departed this vale of tears on the way to the hospital, Dashti said.

Police said Hanif was the target of the attack.

The blast occurred on Taj Road in Chaman, which is located just kilometres away from the country's border with Afghanistan, and shattered windows in nearby buildings.

The dead include a 12-year-old child, Chaman District Police Officer Shaukat Mohmand told DawnNewsTV.

The injured were shifted to Civil Hospital Chaman, where an emergency was declared.

Chaman is considered a sensitive town in Balochistan as it shares a border with Afghanistan's volatile Kandahar province.

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India-Pakistan

LHC acquits 2 men convicted for 2014 Kot Radha Kishan lynching of Christian couple

2019-05-17

[DAWN] The Lahore High Court on Thursday acquitted two men convicted for the 2014 burning alive of a Christian couple in Kot Radha Kishan.

Shahzad and Shama Masih were burned alive in a brick kiln by a frenzied lynch mob ─ incited by announcements made from mosques in the area ─ ranging between 400-1,000 people for their alleged role in the desecration of the Holy Koran in Nov 2014.

Both husband and wife were brick kiln workers, and the woman, a mother of three, was pregnant at the time. Police had started the paperwork but haven't done much else against 660 villagers after the incident. In 2015, an anti-terrorism court had indicted 106 suspected in the lynching.

In Nov 2016, the ATC sentenced five men ─ identified as Mehdi Khan, Riaz Kambo, Irfan Shakoor, Muhammad Hanif, and local prayer leader Hafiz Ishtiaq ─ to two counts of death for their involvement in the burning alive of the couple.

Eight others were also charged with involvement in the lynching and sentenced to two years each in prison.

Justice Muhammad Qasim Khan headed a two-judge bench hearing appeals filed by Muhammad Hanif and Hafiz Ishtiaq against the ATC's 2016 verdict.

The appeals of three other convicts, Mehdi Khan, Riaz Kambo, Irfan Shakoor, were dismissed today by the court, which upheld their death sentences.

The lawyer for the convicts appealed to the court against the punishment handed to them by the ATC, saying that the court had given its verdict without taking the law into consideration.

He said that all the convicts had been nominated at a later stage in the case and pleaded for their acquittal.

The state prosecutor argued that there was solid evidence against all the convicts and requested the court to scrap the appeal.

The court subsequently acquitted two of the convicts, while upholding the ATC's earlier verdict on the appeals of three of the convicts.

A detailed judgement in today's case is awaited.

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India-Pakistan

Faisalabad communal violence: Ahmadi, Muslim communities sign accord for peace

2018-09-05

[DAWN] FAISALABAD: The Ahmadi and Moslem communities of Ghaseetpura signed a written agreement, promising to avoid giving a religious colour to personal and individual disputes and present any issue in future to the local committee.

Agreement was signed by Mian Nazir, Abdul Jabbar, Prof Abdul Hameed, Rana Idrees, Muhammad Sarwar and Muhammad Hanif, representing the Jamat Ahle Sunnat and Shafi, Allah Rakha, Rana Manzoor, Bashrat Ahmed, Arshad and Ghulam Murtaza of the Jamaat Ahmadiyya on Aug 28, following a clash which left 19 people from both sides, including 13 Moslems and six Ahmadis, injured.

On Aug 23, both the sides clashed and resorted to firing against each other from the worship place of Ahmadi and adjacent houses. The Ahmadi worship place (Baitul Zikr) was also ransacked and some of its belongings damaged.

According to the six-point accord, any personal and individual disputes would not be given religious colour. Any dispute or any other issue would be brought to the notice of the local committee. Both the sides would not deliver provocative speeches or make announcements (against each other) in mosques or the worship places. The Ahmadi community would bear the repair expenses of its worship place damaged in the clash and no objection would be raised to the repair work. Both the communities would exercise their religious rights according to the law and constitution of Pakistain. An ex parte decision will be made in case of violation of the agreement.

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India-Pakistan

Woman burnt 'for giving birth to daughter' in critical condition

2017-10-07

[DAWN] A man was tossed in the clink
Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages!
on Friday for attempting to burn his wife in Gharo, Sindh, police officials told Dawn.

According to Civil Hospital Bloody Karachi
...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous...
's Additional Police Surgeon, Dr Qarar Ahmed Abbasi, the woman had suffered burn injuries to 68 per cent of her body and was in a critical condition. She is currently under treatment at the hospital.

On October 2, the woman's husband, Muhammad Hanif Jat, had attempted to torch her alive after spraying oil over her body, police said. The attack occurred in their house in Gharo, a town in Sindh's Thatta district.

The husband brought the woman to a local hospital for treatment on the same day, where he told the administration that she had been burnt by accident.

However,
women are made to be loved, not understood...
the victim negated his claim on Friday and told police in her statement that she had been subjected to physical abuse over the past four months "for giving birth to a girl". The abuse had culminated in the husband attempting to burn her alive.

Police have arrested the husband while the woman is still undergoing treatment.

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India-Pakistan

ATC sentences five to death over burning alive Christian couple in Kot Radha Kishan in 2014

2016-11-24

[DAWN] An Anti-Terrorism Court on Wednesday sentenced five men to death on two counts for their involvement in the burning alive of a Christian couple in Kot Radha Kishan in 2014.

ATC-I Judge Chaudhry Muhammad Azam imposed a fine of Rs200,000 on the five men identified as Mehdi Khan, Riaz Kambo, Irfan Shakoor, Muhammad Hanif, and Hafiz Ishtiaq ─ a local prayer leader ─ for their involvement in the lynching.

Eight others have also been charged with involvement in the lynching and sentenced to two years each in prison.

The eight men were identified as Muhammad Hussain, Noorul Hasan, Muhammad Arsalan, Muhammad Haris, Muhammad Muneer, Muhammad Ramazan, Irfan and Hafiz Shahid.

A challan
... list of charges ...
submitted in court claimed the five men handed the death penalty gathered a large mob of hundreds by making announcements over a mosque loudspeaker and incited them to violence with incendiary speech.

Kot Radha Kishan lynching
A mob of around 400 people lynched Shahzad and Shama for their alleged role in desecrating the Holy Koran in November 2014. Both husband and wife were brick kiln workers from Chak-59 of Kot Radha Kishan, a town in Kasur district. The woman, mother of three, was pregnant.

Police and witnesses told Dawn in Nov 2014 that announcements had been made from mosques on Tuesday asking villagers to gather at the Yousaf brick kiln where 25-year-old Shama and her husband Shahzad Masih worked as bonded labourers.

Over 1,000 charged people from three villages took out the couple from a room (where they had taken shelter) after tearing apart its roof.

The mob tortured the couple before putting them into the kiln’s furnace.

The mob held hostage five coppers who tried to rescue the couple. The villagers also manhandled some media personnel and snatched their cameras.

Police started the paperwork but haven't done much else against 660 villagers, including 60 who were nominated in a First Information Report lodged on the complaint of Sub-Inspector Muhammad Ali of Chowki Factory Area.

The FIR said the mob had thrashed the couple and dragged them to a kiln where Mohammad Yousaf Gujar, the kiln owner, and his accountants Shakeel and Afzal, allegedly removed a lid from one of the openings of the furnace and threw the couple into it.

"Both Shama and Shahzad were reduced to ashes in no time," the FIR stated.

'No one listened to her'
Bilqees, a local Moslem resident, recounted the horrific incident to Dawn in 2014.

She said that Shama, known in the village as Saima, married Shahzad Masih about 10 years ago. They had three children aged between two and seven. She said Shama was pregnant at the time of the incident.

Nazir Masih, father-in-law of Shama, was a faith healer and died a few weeks ago. After his death, Shama had burnt some of his belongings, including papers. She added that Shama was illiterate.

Bilqees said a vendor who had visited the brick kiln found the pages of the Holy Koran and showed them to the villagers.

Later on Tuesday morning, hundreds of villagers gathered at the kiln and burnt the couple alive without even listening to Shama.

"She was screaming that she was unaware of what the papers were about, but no one listened to her," Bilqees said.

International uproar
The lynching of Shama and Shehzad caused international uproar. In 2014, A top Vatican official described the lynching of the couple as a humiliation for all of humanity.

Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran, the chair of the Roman Catholic church's council for interfaith dialogue, had said he was profoundly shocked by accounts of the horrific death of Shehzad and Shama.

"How can we remain impassive before such crimes, justified in the name of religion?," Tauran had earlier said on Vatican Radio, urging Moslem leaders in Pakistain to vigorously condemn the killings.

"It is all of humanity that is humiliated," he had said, adding: "The first victims are in fact Moslems because these misdeeds give an image of Islam that is terrible."

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India-Pakistan

Imambargah official booked

2016-10-20

[DAWN] Police have registered cases against the participants of a mourning procession for bringing out the procession without the government s’ permission and the administration of an under construction imambargah at Adiala Road on charges of violating ban on use of loudspeaker, police said on Tuesday.

The first case was registered with the Saddar Bairooni police on the complaint of a police official who said that he was on security duty outside the residence of Syed Intikhab Hussain Shah in Dhoke Baba Adial on Muharram 15 when a mourning procession led by Muhammad Hanif appeared from the house.

The participants of the procession dispersed on reaching at Mazhar Hussain’s house at 1.30am on Monday. But all of a sudden some mourners whose number was between 25 and 30 appeared on the road and started marching towards an under construction imambargah which was unregistered with the police.

He said despite the fact the mourners were asked to stop bringing out procession as it was illegal and unauthorized, they offered resistance and continued violating the government ban.

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-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

7.5 Earthquake In Afghanistan

2015-10-26

The Guardian live blogged events as they occurred -- go to the link for the details. The earthquake follows the early onset of winter, according to Dawn:

“This is the heaviest pre-winter rainfall in Pakistan’s history and has affected more than 80 per cent of country,” said Dr Muhammad Hanif, spokesperson for the Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD).

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India-Pakistan

Assault on lawyer

2015-05-14

[DAWN] A lawyer, along with his henchmen, thrashed a colleague in the court of District Coordination Officer Saqib Manan during arguments in a revenue case hearing.

The DCO went into his retiring room and avoided to take any action against the lawyer (who belongs to the ruling party).

Although lawyers observed black day on Tuesday, Rana Muhammad Hanif and Syed Qaiser Gilani and their opponent Mohsin Sherazi appeared before the DCO in a revenue case. During the course of arguments, Sherazi lost temper and along with his guards thrashed Hanif.

The injured lawyer took refuge in the Bar room and requested his colleagues to help him. Initially, the lawyers condemned both sides for turning up in court in violation of a decision to boycott courts. Later, they hit out at Sherazi for mercilessly beating a lawyer.

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India-Pakistan

Karachi violence claims nine more lives

2013-02-20

[Dawn] Nine people were killed in different incidents of violence in Karachi-- the restive southern metropolis of Pakistan-- on Tuesday.

A 28-year-old man, Dilshad son of Muhammad Hanif, who was injured in an armed attack by unidentified motorcycle riders in Korangi's Gulzar Colony last night, breathed his last at Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre (JPMC).

Police said the man was sitting at the shop when the incident took place.

Separately, an office-bearer of Muttahida Ulema Council, 42 year-old Tauqeer Hassan son of Sanaullah was killed by unidentified armed men in Bihar Colony, Orangi Town within the precincts of Pakistan Bazaar police station.

His aunt Taranum Banu was also injured in the incident. The body and injured were brought to Abbasi Shaheed Hospital for an autopsy and treatment respectively.

Police said the victim was standing outside his home when unidentified armed men shot him dead on the spot.

The Managing Director Pakistan Machine Tool Factory, Muhammad Ashraf Parvaiz was killed and General Manager Mohammad Kashif injured in firing by unidentified armed men in Bhains Colony, within the jurisdiction of Sukhan police station.

The incident took place when the factory officials were leaving in their car.

Similarly, 30-year-old Safdar Ali Kazmi son of Waqar Ali Kazmi was gunned down by unidentified armed men near airport signal, within the remit of Airport police station.

A 50-year-old man, identified as Ejaz Siddiqui son of Ishfaq Siddiqui was killed by a gun fire by unknown armed men in Korangi Industrial Area.

Meanwhile,
...back at the chili cook-off, Chuck and Manuel's rivalry was entering a new and more dangerous phase...
four people were killed in a firing incident at a mobile phone market in Landhi area of the city.

Initial reports suggest, a man opened indiscriminate firing at the mobile market of Daud Chowrangi Landhi, killing four people.

Police arrested the accused and shifted bodies to a hospital and began probe.

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India-Pakistan

'Attacker' shot dead in JPMC: Violence erupts after ANP man's killing

2012-12-23

[Dawn] Violence erupted following the killing of a local leader of the Awami National Party in the Saddar area in which a passer-by was killed and a suspected attacker was also rubbed out inside the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre on Friday, police said.

They said that during the evening rush hour, assailants riding a

cycle of violence emerged at a teashop near Beautiful Downtown Peshawar
...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire.
i Ice Cream in Bohri Bazaar where ANP leader Ramzan Kakar was sitting with his associates. The assailants fired shots at Mr Kakar and tried to escape.

However,
women are made to be loved, not understood...
the ANP leader's associates returned fire and bullets hit one of the assailants who fell down from the bike, they added.

Two passers-by were also maimed in the firing and taken to the Civil Hospital Bloody Karachi
...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It may be the largest city in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous...
for treatment. However,
corruption finds a dozen alibis for its evil deeds...
Mr Kakar died before he could be taken to hospital, the police said, adding that the body and the maimed suspect were shifted to the JPMC for medico-legal formalities and treatment.

The victim was a brother of Abdul Bari Kakar who is a senior member of the ANP and also chairman of the All Empress Market Association.

As the news of the ANP leader's killing spread, the entire Saddar area reverberated with heavy gunfire and commercial and business concerns shut down within minutes. The firing was so intense that people ran for cover.

Assistant Sub-Inspector Mohammad Qasim and Police Constable Tariq Shafiq suffered gunshot wounds near the Empress Market when a police contingent reached the area to control the situation. The maimed coppers were taken to the Civil Hospital Bloody Karachi for treatment.

A passer-by was also maimed in the firing and was rushed to the Civil Hospital. He died during treatment late in the night. He was identified as Imdad, 30, said a front man for the Sindh Police.

Fear and panic gripped the JPMC when a large number of ANP workers reached there and had gun sex. People present at the hospital ran for cover amid firing. A man present in the hospital suffered a gunshot wound.

Abdul Rehman, had been brought to the JPMC's emergency and accident department with a relatively minor gunshot wound. However, some suspects entered the emergency ward and shot him dead on the hospital bed

Police and hospital sources said that the suspected attacker, identified as Abdul Rehman, had been brought to the JPMC's emergency and accident department with a relatively minor gunshot wound. However,
today is that tomorrow you were thinking about yesterday...
some suspects entered the emergency ward and shot him dead on the hospital bed, said the sources.

Paramedic staff and doctors at the JPMC were also forced to take cover in the firing and, according to Dr Simeen Jamali, the official in charge of the emergency and accident department, they had abandoned the hospital.

She said that a man, identified as Habib, was said to be in a critical condition and admitted in the neurological ward of the JPMC.

"He suffered a gunshot wound in the head during firing in the hospital and is critical."

A heavy contingent of police and Rangers reached the hospital and it was after their arrival that peace was restored and doctors and paramedical staff resumed their duties.

"We have tossed in the clink
Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try!
a man who had carried out firing in the hospital and killed the reported attacker," DIG-South Asif Ajaz Sheikh said, adding that the police recovered two AK-47 assault rifles from his possession.

The police collected 17 spent bullet casings of an AK-47 rifle from the emergency ward of the JPMC.

The police collected 17 spent bullet casings of an AK-47 rifle from the emergency ward of the JPMC.

Man rubbed out in Baldia Town

A man was rubbed out in Baldia Town on Friday evening, police said. They said that Muhammad Hanif, 22, was waiting for a bus at a bus stop in Baldia Town No 7 near the route G-3 bus terminus when he was targeted by two gunnies riding a cycle of violence.

The assailants fled following the shooting.

The victim died on his way to the Civil Hospital Bloody Karachi.

The police were not clear about the motive for the killing.

Trader killed in Orangi

An office-bearer of a local market association in Orangi Town was rubbed out on Friday, police said.

Tension gripped the locality following the shooting within the remit of the Pakistain Bazaar cop shoppe.

The police said that Abdul Razzaq, 55, was returning home after Friday prayers when gunnies riding a motorbike shot at him in Gulshan-e-Bihar, Orangi Town, Sector 16.

The victim was rushed to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital where he was pronounced dead.
He's dead, Jim!
on arrival. Following the medico-legal formalities, the police handed over the body to the victim's family.

The victim was father of three and a Gulshan-e-Bihar resident, the police said, adding that he had a gift shop in the local market and was general secretary of the area market association.

However,
denial ain't just a river in Egypt...
the police said, the motive for the killing had not been ascertained.

Missing teenager
found rubbed out

A resident of Martin Quarters, who had gone missing on Dec 9, was found rubbed out near the Aga Khan Jamaat Khana in Garden area on Friday, police said.

The shifted the body to the Civil Hospital Bloody Karachi where the victim was identified as Nabeel Rehman, 18.

The police said that the victim's family had lodged a report about his disappearance with the Jamshed Quarters cop shoppe.

However,
a hangover is the wrath of grapes...
a few days later, he told the family over phone that he was in Multan, the police said. They quoted the family as saying that they had no further contact with him afterwards.

It seemed that the victim was kidnapped and later rubbed out, said a police investigator. However,
ars longa, vita brevis...
he added, the motive for the killing was yet to be ascertained.

Policeman dies

A police constable, who had been shot at and maimed by bandidos near the Frere police lines, died on Friday at a hospital during treatment.

Constable Noorul Amin, 30, had sustained gunshot wounds while trying to overpower one of the three bandidos who had been depriving women of their cash and valuables.

Posted in the CID Civil Lines, the victim was a resident of Frere police lines.

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India-Pakistan

Quetta Quorpse Qount

2012-07-06

QUETTA: Two persons were gunned down in Quetta while two others, including a manger of motorcycle company, were kidnapped from Hub Town of Balochistan, on Thursday. According to police, unidentified armed men riding a motorbike opened indiscriminate fire on a man at Baloch Khan Chowk of Pakhtunabad area of Quetta. Resultantly, he sustained critical wounds and was moved to Quetta Civil Hospital for treatment where he succumbed to his injuries. The assailants fled from the scene after committing the crime.

The deceased was identified as Siddiqullah. Police said the deceased was an Afghan national and a rickshaw driver by profession. However, motive behind his killing was yet to be ascertained. Police have registered a case against unidentified people and further investigations were underway.

Meanwhile, a man was killed in Faizabad area of Sariyab Road of Quetta. According to the police, the man, identified as Abdul Malik Abro, was sitting in his shop in Faizabad area when unidentified armed men opened fire on him. Resultantly, he was killed on the spot.
"Which spot?"
"THAT spot!"
The body was shifted to the Civil Hospital for autopsy. The deceased was an employee of the Health Department.

"The deceased received bullets in his head and chest which was cause of his death," hospital sources said. A case has been registered against the unidentified persons and investigation is underway.

In another incident, unidentified people kidnapped the manager of a motorcycle company and his driver from Hub, industrial town of Balochistan. Hanif Afshani was on his way along with his driver Nawaz in Hub when armed men intercepted him at gunpoint and escaped towards undisclosed location after bundling both of them into their vehicle. Police suspected that it could be a case of kidnapping for ransom, however, kidnappers had not demanded any ransom amount so far, sources in Hub said.

Meanwhile, Muhammad Hanif Khetran was kidnapped at gunpoint by unidentified gunmen from Barkhan district when he was on his way home. Police have registered cases and started investigation into the incidents.

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