...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...
, officials said Monday.
Anti-Islamic fascisti officers in the province, a flashpoint for violence between Pakistain's majority Sunni Moslems and minority Shia's, gave chase after they tried to approach the suspects in a Toyota car which sped away.
The suspects then abandoned the vehicle and tried to escape into fields under the cover of fire, provincial police chief Qazi Abdul Wahid told AFP.
"An ensuing gunbattle police potted the pair," he said, adding that the encounter took place near Quetta's suburban Akhtarabad neighbourhood which lies close to the Shia Hazara community. Police recovered six pistols and one hand grenade from the suspects.
"We firmly believe they are hit mans who had been on some mission. They belong to some bad boy group involved in sectarian violence," Wahid added.
Around 35 people have been killed in Balochistan over the past month in what police called assassinations by gunnies from the rival Moslem sects.
The minority Shia's account for around a fifth of the country's 167 million population.