Unidentified gunmen shot dead a Shiite judge along with his driver and police bodyguard in Quetta on Thursday in a suspected sectarian attack, police said.
The incident took place when Zulfiqar Naqvi was travelling to his office.
“Gunmen were waiting for him at a railway crossing, the moment the car slowed down, the assailants sprayed bullets and fled,” senior police officer Wazir Khan Nasir told AFP.
“The target of the attack was the judge and it appeared to be a sectarian incident.”
Khalid Mazoor, another senior police officer, confirmed the killings and added the gunmen were riding a motorbike.
There was no claim of responsibility for the attack but Baluchistan has been a flashpoint for violence between majority Sunnis and Shiites, who make up around 20 percent of the population.
Sectarian conflict has left thousands of people dead since the late 1980s, and the province also suffers Taliban attacks and a separatist insurgency.
Bomb blasts and attacks on police and security forces are frequent in the province, which is one of the most deprived areas of Pakistan.
Another "Shia Kafir" down. Job well done by some Son of a Bit*h who believes himself to be a "True Muslim".
How dare you describe him as shiite judge-how do you know the quality of this judge.
The , murderers posing as true muslims….tarnishing the peaceful message of islam.
he was shia coz he was our senior at the university he was genius but as it is written he was not deserved life coz he was an urdu speaking n shia, so laskar e jhangvi which is the second to Allah on this earth took his life shame on u laskar e jhangwi hate u from the core of my heart …..
The people who do the killings are not real muslim. You can’t kill anyone, especially when they believe in Allahu Akbar. Can you kill anyone believing in the same God?
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