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QUETTA: Gunmen on Tuesday shot dead a woman university professor in southwest Pakistan, where targeted killings blamed on tribal insurgents, sectarian groups and militants are increasing, police said.
Nazima Talib, 48, had just stepped into a rickshaw at the gate of Balochistan University in Quetta city when gunmen riding a motorbike sprayed her with bullets, senior police officer Tariq Manzoor said.
“She received multiple bullet wounds and died before she could be taken to hospital,” Manzoor told AFP.
“It was a targeted killing,” he said. Talib came from Pakistan's central province of Punjab that regional insurgents in Balochistan accuse of siphoning off their resources and denying them independence, police said.
She was a senior teacher in the mass communications department.
Violence has recently surged in Balochistan, which borders both Afghanistan and Iran. About two dozen people died in targeted killings in the province in March.
http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect...ofessor-killed-in-act-of-target-killing-ss-03
Nazima Talib, 48, had just stepped into a rickshaw at the gate of Balochistan University in Quetta city when gunmen riding a motorbike sprayed her with bullets, senior police officer Tariq Manzoor said.
“She received multiple bullet wounds and died before she could be taken to hospital,” Manzoor told AFP.
“It was a targeted killing,” he said. Talib came from Pakistan's central province of Punjab that regional insurgents in Balochistan accuse of siphoning off their resources and denying them independence, police said.
She was a senior teacher in the mass communications department.
Violence has recently surged in Balochistan, which borders both Afghanistan and Iran. About two dozen people died in targeted killings in the province in March.
http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect...ofessor-killed-in-act-of-target-killing-ss-03