...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it...
province, police said.
Imran Qureshi, the Superintendent of Police told Dawn that unknown gunnies opened fire on Spini road killing two persons. The slain persons were identified as members of the Hazara community who were killed en route to main city from Hazara Town area of Quetta.
"The attackers escaped unhurt from the spot," Qureshi stated.
Police and Frontier Corps personnel reached the spot as a probe into the incident went underway.
The bodies were shifted to hospital for postmortem.
"This seems to be a sectarian assassination," another police official who requested anonymity owing to the sensitivity of the matter told Dawn.
There was no claim of responsibility for the attack.
Spini road is considered to be one of the sensitive areas of Quetta. Frequent incidents of assassinations take place in the area despite the presence of security personnel and their check posts.