Ahlul Bayt News Agency (ABNA.ir), Quetta, Pakistan -- A radical Wahhabi on Tuesday shot dead a woman university professor in southwest Pakistan, where targeted killings blamed on tribal insurgents, sectarian groups and militants are increasing, police said.
Professor Nazima Talib Mehdi, 48, had just stepped into a rickshaw at the gate of Balochistan University in Quetta city when gunmen riding a motorbike sprayed her with bullets, senior police officer Tariq Manzoor said.
“She received multiple bullet wounds and died before she could be taken to hospital,” Manzoor said. “It was a targeted killing,” he said.
Reports suggested that the assailants chased Talib from the UoB when she had hardly covered more than 1,000 yards from the university.
With the conspicuous absence of senior police and administration officials, some personnel of police, on being informed, reached the scene and started a probe into the matter. Eyewitnesses said the police reached the spot after 20 minutes of the incident. The body of the deceased was shifted to the Civil Hospital morgue for autopsy.
Assistant Professor Nazima Talib, 48, was associated with the Mass Communication department of the University of Balochistan for over 25 years, and was a popular faculty member in the varsity.
It may be noted here that more than One dozen Shia people died in targeted killings in the province in April but the Provincial Government was failed to arrest a single terrorists involved in sectarian target killing of Shia Muslims.
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