Quetta: Police Surgeon Baqir Shah was
shot dead by some by unknown people on
Sabzal Road in Quetta.
Masked gunmen on Thursday shot dead a
police surgeon who had complained of death threats in Quetta, capital of
Pakistan s restive southwestern province Baluchistan, police said.
Baqir
Shah was going home from hospital when the gunmen ambushed his car and
shot him in the head five times, killing him on the spot, senior police
official Faridullah Braich told newsmen.
But Shah had spoken
about death threats from unknown people in a televised press conference
earlier this year after he resisted pressure to fudge the postmortem
reports of four unarmed Russians and a Tajik shot dead by police.
On
May 17, police and Frontier Corps paramilitary forces opened fire on
the group, saying they were suicide bombers who attacked a checkpoint in
Kharotabad on the outskirts of Quetta.
A subsequent judicial
commission found that the Tajik and the Russians, three of whom were
women and one of whom was pregnant, were unarmed. It sacked two police
officials over the killings. Online
