 Unidentified armed men gunned down a former Taliban leader in Pakistan's southwestern Baluchistan province on Saturday, his relatives said. Mulla Samad Barakzai, head of Taliban's Department For Promotion of Virtue and Prevention Of Vice in the southern Helmand province, was shot dead in the Pushtoon-Abad area of Quetta, the provincial capital. No one has claimed responsibility for the murder. Barakzai, had been living in Baluchistan since the fall of the Taliban. Motives behind the murder are not clear. It is believed that Barakzai was in contact with Hamid Karzai government. |