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India-Pakistan
Two ASWJ members killed
2014-05-24
[DAWN] RAWALPINDI: Two office-bearers of Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat
...which is the false nose and plastic mustache of the murderous banned extremist group Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistain, whatcha might call the political wing of Lashkar-e-Jhangvi...
(ASWJ) were killed in a targeted attack near the Ojri Camp in Shamsabad on Thursday night, police said.

Both members of the banned
...the word banned seems to have a different meaning in Pakistain than it does in most other places. Or maybe it simply lacks any meaning at all...
organization
were on their way to Saddar after attending a religious seminar when they were attacked by two unidentified cycle of violence riders.

Nasir Abbasi, a key witness in the attack on Mufti Tanveer Alam, was on his way to Rawalpindi with Mufti Ishtiaq when the motorcyclists shot up them. Abbasi was killed on the spot while his lover companion was maimed.

The traffic police official on duty nearby arranged a private van to shift the victims to Benazir Bhutto
... 11th Prime Minister of Pakistain in two non-consecutive terms from 1988 until 1990 and 1993 until 1996. She was the daughter of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, founder of the Pakistain People's Party, who was murdered at the instigation of General Ayub Khan. She was murdered in her turn by person or persons unknown while campaigning in late 2007. Suspects include, to note just a few, Baitullah Mehsud, General Pervez Musharraf, the ISI, al-Qaeda in Pakistain, and her husband, Asif Ali Zardari, who shows remarkably little curiosity about who done her in...
Hospital. Mufti Ishtiaq was operated upon in the hospital but he eventually succumbed to injuries and passed away at the hospital.

"Today's attack on ASWJ workers was in continuity of murders in the twin cities, since some time," said Mufti Tanveer Alam, ASWJ local leader.

"Right now, I would say it was murder," City Police Officer Humayun Bashir Tarar said, adding that the attackers would be traced soon.
Posted by:Fred

#1  "Right now, I would say it was murder,"

City Police Officer Humayun Bashir Tarar sounds tentative. Could his finding of murder change to suicide or perhaps manslaughter if the drive-by was in fact intended for someone else?
Posted by: Squinty   2014-05-24 11:01  

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