Unidentified armed men shot dead a provincial leader of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz along with two of his bodyguards in Hub, the industrial town of Balochistan, on Monday. Police officials said Qadir Zehri, a PML-N provincial leader, was attacked by armed motorcyclists who opened indiscriminate firing on his vehicle on Sakran Road, killing him and his bodyguards. Police rushed to the scene soon after the incident and moved the body to hospital for medico-legal formalities. “The incident appears to be a case of target killing,” a police official said, adding that investigation into to unearth the real motive behind the killing was underway. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack so far.
