CHAGAI: A shutter down strike against the target killing of two women of the Domki family in Karachi paralysed routine life across Balochistan on Thursday amid the killing of five more people in three separate incidents.
The Balochistan National Party, National Party and other nationalists had announced a shutter down strike across the province on Thursday against the target killing of the wife and daughter of MPA Mir Bakhtiar Domki in Karachi two days ago. The slain woman was the granddaughter and the child great-granddaughter of late Nawab Akbar Bugti.
Almost all markets and business centers in Quetta and other districts remained closed while partial shutter down was observed in far-flung districts.
Demonstrations were also held in various districts against lawlessness and target killings of Baloch. The protesters demanded that the federal and provincial governments take steps to give protection to the lives and property of the Baloch. They called upon the Sindh government to immediately arrest the culprits involved in target killings.
Meanwhile, five persons were killed in three separate incidents of firing in Balochistan on Thursday. Three persons including a man and his son were killed in firing in Mashkel near the Pak-Iran border on Thursday. the Levies force said that armed men riding a vehicle opened fire on a car near Arab Mosque.Resultantly, two persons of the family including Qalian Khan and his son Shala Dost and a passerby, Muhammad Hamza, were killed. Levies personnel rushed to the site and shifted the bodies to a hospital.
According to preliminary investigation, old enmity was stated to be the motive behind the incident. In Tehsil Tambo area of Nasirabad district, armed men gunned down a man identified as Sikandar Uzbak. The attackers fled the scene.
In Khuzdar armed men shot dead a trader Haji Muhammad Ramazan and injured another person. The victim was sitting at his shop on Omar Farooq Junction when the armed men who were on a motorbike opened fire on him and fled. He died on the spot while another person whose identity could not be ascertained sustained injuries and was admitted to hospital for treatment.
Unidentified armed men blew up a 16-inch diameter gas pipeline in Dera Bugti district.
The culprits had attached an explosive devise with a 16-inch diameter pipeline, which was supplying natural gas from a well to a purification plant. They detonated it with a remote control. Resultantly, a portion of the pipeline was blown up and gas supply to the purification plant was suspended.
