Two Punjabis target killed in Panjgur

The Baloch Hal News

PANJGUR: As the current wave of target killings in Balochistan continued, two more Punjabi settlers were shot dead in Panjgur, a district located on 600 kilometers away from provincial capital Quetta on Pak-Iran border town in the restive Balochistan province.

Police in Panjgur district said unidentified armed men had opened indiscriminate fire with Kalashnikov on two laborers working in Shaokhan area at Panjgur grid station on Tuesday. Both of them, who were reported to be citizens of Lodhran district of Punjab province, died on the spot. The killers managed to escape from the venue when the local police reached the spot.  They were identified as Manawar Hussain and Sarfaraz, residents of Lodharan district of the Punjab.

The dead bodies of the victims were sent to their native district after the completion of basic police and medical investigation formalities. The killings in Panjgur raised the total number of people target killed in different parts of Balochistan in a single week to 22.

No group has claimed responsibility for the murder of Punjabi laborers in Panjgur even though armed Baloch nationalist groups have issued threats to Punjabis across Balochistan to leave the province.

Balochistan governor Nawab Zulfiqar Ali Magsi said here on Tuesday that the was no peace across Balochistan at the moment.

“ There is a need to take action against policemen who refuse to perform their duty,” he said, adding that the Frontier Corps had been ordered to keep law and order in Balochistan on the request of the provincial government. In response to a question about a recent statement by Balochistan chief minister Nawab Mohammad Aslam Raisani that the Frontier Corps had established a parallel government in Balochistan and refused to abide by the instructions of the government, he said the government should issue the withdrawal orders of FC if it felt dissatisfied with the latter’s performance.