Lahore: Gunmen opened fire on a car carrying a local opposition leader in this eastern Pakistani city Saturday, killing him and two other men, police said. Bin Yamin Rizvi, a senior figure in the Pakistan Muslim League-N party, was slain less than a mile from his party's office in Lahore's upscale Garden Town residential neighborhood, city police chief Tariq Saleem said. The two other men killed with him in the same car were not immediately identified. All the victims died at the scene of the shooting, Saleem said. The two assailants were on a motorcycle and sped away.
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There was no claim of responsibility for the attack, and Saleem said it was too early to speculate on who was involved. The Pakistan Muslim League-N is the party of Pakistan's former prime minister, Nawaz Sharif, who was toppled by current president Gen. Pervez Musharraf in a coup in 1999. Sharif is living in exile in Saudi Arabia. |