The attack came at a shrine of the Zikri community in Awaran district, around 650 kilometers southwest of Quetta, the capital of restive Balochistan
...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.
Oil and gas rich Balochistan is wracked by a separatist insurgency, Islamist Death Eaters and sectarian violence and attacks on minority groups are not uncommon.
"Three gunman came on two cycle of violences and fired at the worshipers, praying at sunset. At least six people have been killed and seven others are injured," Akbar Harifal, the senior administration official in the area, told Agence La Belle France Presse.
"The gunnies escaped after the attack."
Provincial home secretary Akbar Hussain Durrani also confirmed the attack.
Zikris are relatively a new sect of Moslems in Pakistain who worship in groups at shrines and on mountains in remote, sparsely populated Balochistan.
No group has claimed the attack but graffiti warning Zikris and Hindus to embrace mainstream Islam or face being killed appeared on the walls in the province last week.
Balochistan, which borders Iran and Afghanistan, is Pakistain's largest province but also its poorest and least developed.
Ethnic Baluch rebels have long waged a low-level insurgency seeking either full independence or a greater share of the province's mineral wealth.
The province has also been the scene of numerous bloody terror attacks on Shiite Moslems.