[Dawn] Gunmen on a cycle of violence rubbed out a local politician in Pakistain's southwestern province of Balochistan on Wednesday, police said."Mustafa Khursani, a provincial leader of Pakistain Peoples Party-Sherpao was killed by unknown gunnies in his native town of Soorab, some 230 kilometres south of Quetta," senior police official Khalid Baqi told AFP.
"Khursani was sitting in a grocery shop when two young men riding a cycle of violence came there and sprayed bullets from close range," Baqi said, adding that the motive for the killing was not immediately clear.
Nobody has yet taken credit, he said.
Violence has surged this year in Balochistan, which borders Afghanistan and Iran.
Human rights muscle have raised concerns about an increase in assassinations in the province over the past 20 months.
Hundreds of people have died since Baloch gun-hung tough guys rose up in 2004 demanding political autonomy and a greater share of profits from the region's wealth of natural oil, gas and mineral resources.
The province is also rife with sectarian violence.