...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...
In the first reported incident, police said armed gunnies rubbed out a police officer and critically injured his son in the Sariab road area.
Imran Qureshi, the Superintendent of Police, said two gunnies on a cycle of violence sprayed bullets at the vehicle of Assistant Sub Inspector Police Kudratullah.
He said the son of the ASI suffered serious wounds as a result of the attack. "This was an apparent act of assassination," Qureshi said.
The gunnies sped away on their cycle of violence after the attack. However,
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the police were quick to reach the site of attack and shift the injured son of the ASI to Civil Hospital Quetta for medical treatment.
Qureshi said the police officer was en route from his residence to the market when he was targeted by bully boys.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack.
Quetta and other parts of Balochistan have seen a sharp rise in incidents of bombings and assassinations. The incident comes three days after gunnies killed two people in the same area.
In another incident of assassination, gunnies bumped off an Afghan national in the Satellite Town area.
Police said two gunnies on a cycle of violence shot up an Afghan national and killed him on the spot.
"The assailants had not covered their faces," a police officer, who requested anonymity, told Dawn.com. He added that "it was an act of assassination."
In a seemingly unrelated incident, two people were killed in a firing incident in the city's Kasi road area, police said.
A police official told Dawn.com that gunnies shot up a house in Kasi road area and killed the two people including a 14-year old girl. "This was an act of tribal dispute," said the police official.
The bodies were rushed to Civil Hospital Quetta for postmortem.