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India-Pakistan
Two journalists among three gunned down in Quetta
2014-08-29
[DAWN] QUETTA: Three people including two journalists were killed in a firing incident in Quetta, the capital of 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 on Thursday evening, police said.

Unidentified armed turbans barged into the office of news agency, Online and bumped off Irshad Mastoi, the Bureau Chief of the agency. Mastoi's news hound Ghullam Rasool and accountant Muhammad Younas were also killed by the murderous Moslems.

"All victims received multiple bullets," Razaq Cheema, the Capital City Police Officer (CCPO) Quetta said.

Despite crowd and high security zone, the assailants managed to escape unhurt from the spot.

Police and Frontier Corps personnel reached the office and started an initial investigation into the incident.

Irshad Mastoi was working as bureau chief of Online news agency and assignment editor ARY.

Dead bodies of the victims were rushed to Civil Hospital in Quetta. A large number of journalists reached the hospital and chanted full-throated slogans against the cold blooded murder of journalists.

Balochistan Union of Journalists (BUJ) strongly condemned the incident and termed it an attack at freedom of expression. Irfan Saeed, the BUJ President announced a three-day mourning to bewail the killings.
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