Settler gunned down in Nushki

The Baloch Hal News

QUETTA: Unidentified armed assailants shot dead a settler in Nushki district some 160 Kilometers on Southwest of Quetta on Thursday, police said.

Some unknown men armed with sophisticated weapons barged into the house of Ishfaq Ahmed in Killi Qadirabad 3 kilometers away from Nushki town and opened indiscriminate firing on him.

Resultantly, he received critical bullet wounds and succumbed to his injuries before reaching Civil Hospital Nushki. The assailants easily managed to escape the scene after committing crime.

Police after completing legal formalities handed over body to heirs.

Police sources said investigations into the incident are underway to ascertain motive behind the killing and it would be premature to term it “target killing”.

Ishfaq, 40, was basically belonged to Punjab but he had settled in Nushki and had got married in a Baloch family. He was running a PCO.

However, no group has claimed the responsibility for the killing of Ishafa Ahmed.