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Miscreants kill 3 Pak Punjabis in Balochistan
As many as three persons hailing from Punjab have been shot dead, apparently in a target-killing move, by some miscreants near Mach town in Balochistan after being singled out from passengers of a Rahim Yar Khan-bound bus coming from Quetta, security sources told The Nation Wednesday. “The sad incident took place on December 26 night when a group of people believed to be from Marri tribe stopped the bus at Dhadr near Mach,” IGP, Balochistan, Chaudhry Yaqoob, confirmed the target killing.

According to him, the killers on gun point asked all the passengers of the bus (Marri Coach) to come down and identify their names and places of origin, the Balochistan police boss said. The three passengers who identified themselves as hailing from Punjab were gunned down on the spot by the miscreants, he said.
"Where yew from, stranger?"
"Punjab."
[BANG!] [thump]
"Now, how 'bout YEW, stranger? Where YEW from?"
"Um, .. Brooklyn."
The killers, Chaudhry Yaqoob viewed, came down from the hills where a number of training camps of miscreants are currently operative. The killings took place on the eve of strike call extended by a political alliance of Baloch nationalist parties against the continued operation against the miscreants.
That must make sense to someone ...
One of the deceased has been identified as Zafar Iqbal son of Malik Allah Wasaya, from Layyah, a security official informed. His body has been handed over to his brother while the two others have been placed in Bolan Medical College for identification, he said.

In a similar incident in October, some elements had stopped a bus near Gwadar at M-8 Highway and shot dead one Munawar after he told the outlaws that he was a Punjabi. The IGP Balochistan said these acts of violence are part of the violent anti-settlers drive in the province despite the fact that two-third of Baloch population itself is settled outside the province.
Posted by: Croper Flinens1414 2005-12-31
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