QUETTA: Central Secretary General of the Balochistan National Party (BNP) and former senator Habib Jalib Baloch was gunned down on Wednesday morning in Quetta city.
The Moscow-educated Jalib was a prominent Baloch intellectual and a former chairman of the Baloch Students Organization (BSO)
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Jalib, a senior Supreme Court lawyer and the author a several research papers on Baloch nationalism, was sitting at his brother’s shop on Musa Colony of Sariab Road when unidentified persons riding a motorbike opened fire at him. Jalib was rushed to Quetta’ Civil Hospital where he was pronounced dead.
A large number of BNP activists, members of different nationalist parties and lawyers’ community rushed to the hospital soon after hearing the news. Enraged sympathizers of the Baloch leader wanted to take his body in front of the Governor’s House to protest against the killing. The police, however, did not allow them to get closer to the Governor’s House at Zargoon Road.
While the BNP has announced 40 days of mourning, the Chief Minister of Balochistan Nawab Mohammad Aslam Raisani has ordered a judicial probe into the high-profile case of target killing of a prominent nationalist leader. The judicial investigation would be headed by a judge of the Balochistan High Court.
Jalib’s killing has been widely condemned by people hailing from diverse sections of the society.
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