NP leader shot dead

Published September 12, 2015
Dashti was the brother of Turbat sessions judge and was on his way home when he came under fire.—AFP/File
Dashti was the brother of Turbat sessions judge and was on his way home when he came under fire.—AFP/File

GWADAR: Jan Ahmed Da­­­shti, a leader of the Nat­i­onal Party (NP) and councillor of Gogadan Union Cou­ncil, was shot dead in Dank area of Turbat on Friday.

Police sources said Mr Dashti, who was the brother of Turbat sessions judge Murad Ali Baloch, was on his way home when he came under fire.

Assailants overtook Mr Dashti’s vehicle and fired at him.

Then they dragged him out of his vehicle and pumped a volley of bullets into his body, police said.

Chairman District Council Fida Hussain Dashti and a large number of party workers gathered at the hospital on receiving information about the attack.

They said Mr Dashti’s death was a huge loss to the NP and demanded immediate arrest of his killers. —Correspondent 

Published in Dawn, September 12th, 2015

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