Islamabad: Unidentified armed men shot dead a Baloch political leader and injured five other persons in Pakistan's restive Balochistan province on Tuesday, police said.
Mir Abdul Khaliq Mehrwani, the former secretary of the Baloch National Party-Awami, was going home with his colleagues in a vehicle when he was attacked by gunmen riding a motorcycle on the National Highway near Surab area last evening.
Mehrwani died instantly while five of his colleagues were injured. The Levies militia launched a search for the attackers.
No group has claimed responsibility for the attack.
PTI
First Published: Wednesday, June 29, 2011, 08:47