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Gunmen kill six in Pakistan - two UN workers
[Emirates 24/7] Gunmen on Thursday rubbed out four Pak and two UN employees in 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... , a region plagued by Taliban violence and a separatist insurgency, police said. Gunmen on a cycle of violence fired at a van carrying members of the minority Mohammedan community in the Speeni Road neighbourhood of Quetta city, the capital of the southwestern province, police official Jamil Kakar told AFP. "Four people, including a woman, were killed and seven others were maimed," Kakar said, adding that it appeared to be a "sectarian" attack. Dozens demonstrated in Quetta's main Meezan Chowk square and outside the provincial police chief's office, and torched a cycle of violence at a local hospital to protest against the killings, witnesses said. Human rights groups have heavily criticised Pakistain for failing to crack down on sectarian violence. Thousands of people have died in related unrest since the late 1980s. In a separate incident, gunnies rubbed out two local employees of the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation in Mastung, a city 40 kilometres (25 miles) south of Quetta, police official Shakir Ullah told AFP. "A driver and a staff member of FAO were killed and another staffer maimed after gunnies fired at their vehicle," Ullah said. It was not immediately clear why they were targeted and so far no one has grabbed credit, he said. Posted by: Fred 2012-03-30 |
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