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| India-Pakistan |
| Hit job on Pak official seems flubbed in Quetta... |
| 2002-08-16 |
| Two unidentified gunmen riding on a motorcycle shot and seriously wounded a senior Pakistani government officer and his driver Friday in the southern city of Quetta. Sa'adat Hussain Naqvi, a director at the provincial agriculture department, was going home in his official car when the assailants pulled alongside and fired several shots, wounding him critically. Four bullets hit Naqvi, while one round hit the driver in the back. Both were taken to a hospital where they were in stable condition. Police in Quetta said they have sealed off all the town, near the border with Afghanistan. The attack was the second assassination attempt on a senior government official in the city in a week. The motives remain unclear, but police and interior ministry officials said the assailants had targeted officials belonging to Pakistan's minority Shiite Muslim community. It could be Sipah, but it could also be any number of other nut case organizations allied with the Three Amigos. Reader Paul sent me a link, by the way, to a bio article in Friday Times on the Three Amigos. I've excerpted it and stashed it in core dump% for future reference, since Friday Times links die each week. It's well worth reading, if you're interested in the "legit" face of the Deobandi terror movements... |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |
