Balochhal News
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
QUETTA: Unidentified persons have gunned down a female professor of journalism and an Urdu language poet on Tuesday in Balochistan capital,
Quetta, after opening indiscriminate fire. on her. According to the details, Professor Nazima Talib, 48,who used to teach at the Journalism Department of
University of Balochistan, was gunned down by unidentified persons on Quetta’s Sariab Road by unknown assailants. She was a respected literary
figure whose write-ups used to publish in different magazines and newspapers in Balochistan and elsewhere in Pakistan. She died after receiving
multiple bullets. “She received multiple bullet wounds and died before she could be taken to hospital,” AFP quoted a senior police officer from Quetta, “It
was a targeted killing.”
The causes of her murder were not known as she was a Punajbi as well as a member of the Shia religious community. Balochistan capital, Quetta, has
been the center of sectarian target killing of Shia Muslims as well as that of Punjabi settlers. No group has accepted responsibility for the killing.
It was the first time ever that a woman was target killed either in a case of sectarian killing or violence against the Punjabi settlers.
Police in Quetta said it was investigating the matter.Balochistan Chief Minister Nawab Mohammad Aslam Raisani has expressed his deepest sorrows
over the killing of the university professor and instructed the police to thoroughly investigate the matter.
Earlier on Tuesday morning, unidentified persons gunned down a professor of journalism and an Urdu language poet on Tuesday in Balochistan
capital, Quetta, after opening indiscriminate fire. According to the details, Professor Nazima Talib, 48,who used to teach at the Journalism Department of
University of Balochistan, was gunned down by unidentified persons on Quetta’s Sariab Road by unknown assailants. She was a respected literary
figure whose write-ups used to publish in different magazines and newspapers in Balochistan. She died after receiving multiple bullets. “She received
multiple bullet wounds and died before she could be taken to hospital,” AFP quoted a senior police officer from Quetta, “It was a targeted killing.”
The University of Balochistan has decided to remain shut for the next three days to mourn the killing of its professor. Balochistan Chief Minister Nawab
Mohammad Aslam Raisani has condemned the killing and issued orders for an immediate investigation into the matter.
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Tuesday, April 27, 2010
QUETTA: Unidentified persons have gunned down a female professor of journalism and an Urdu language poet on Tuesday in Balochistan capital,
Quetta, after opening indiscriminate fire. on her. According to the details, Professor Nazima Talib, 48,who used to teach at the Journalism Department of
University of Balochistan, was gunned down by unidentified persons on Quetta’s Sariab Road by unknown assailants. She was a respected literary
figure whose write-ups used to publish in different magazines and newspapers in Balochistan and elsewhere in Pakistan. She died after receiving
multiple bullets. “She received multiple bullet wounds and died before she could be taken to hospital,” AFP quoted a senior police officer from Quetta, “It
was a targeted killing.”
The causes of her murder were not known as she was a Punajbi as well as a member of the Shia religious community. Balochistan capital, Quetta, has
been the center of sectarian target killing of Shia Muslims as well as that of Punjabi settlers. No group has accepted responsibility for the killing.
It was the first time ever that a woman was target killed either in a case of sectarian killing or violence against the Punjabi settlers.
Police in Quetta said it was investigating the matter.Balochistan Chief Minister Nawab Mohammad Aslam Raisani has expressed his deepest sorrows
over the killing of the university professor and instructed the police to thoroughly investigate the matter.
Earlier on Tuesday morning, unidentified persons gunned down a professor of journalism and an Urdu language poet on Tuesday in Balochistan
capital, Quetta, after opening indiscriminate fire. According to the details, Professor Nazima Talib, 48,who used to teach at the Journalism Department of
University of Balochistan, was gunned down by unidentified persons on Quetta’s Sariab Road by unknown assailants. She was a respected literary
figure whose write-ups used to publish in different magazines and newspapers in Balochistan. She died after receiving multiple bullets. “She received
multiple bullet wounds and died before she could be taken to hospital,” AFP quoted a senior police officer from Quetta, “It was a targeted killing.”
The University of Balochistan has decided to remain shut for the next three days to mourn the killing of its professor. Balochistan Chief Minister Nawab
Mohammad Aslam Raisani has condemned the killing and issued orders for an immediate investigation into the matter.
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| Apri 27, 2010 We here at Baloch Society of North America strongly condemn the killing of female professor. The killing of teachers will not give Baloch a good name nor will it help the Baloch struggle in any way. BSO-NA team ! |
| Breaking News: Female Journalism professor killed in Quetta |