QUETTA, June 19: Father of Mir Aslam Buladi, a leader of the Balochistan National Movement (BNM) and a former provincial agriculture minister, was gunned down by unknown armed men in Turbat, on Wednesday.

According to reports reaching here, four armed persons riding a red car attacked Mir Fazal Karim with automatic weapons in the main Turbat bazaar when he was coming out of a hotel.

He received multiple bullet injuries and died on way to a hospital.

All the four assassins disappeared from the scene in the car.

The deceased was also a maternal uncle of ex-provincial minister Mir Mohammad Ayub Buladi, who was also murdered along with then Election Commissioner of Balochistan in 1995 when they were going to Bulada.

The cause of murder of Fazal Karim could be an old enmity with his rivals in Bulada, official sources told Dawn from Turbat by telephone late in the evening.

The Turbat police have registered a case against unknown armed men and investigations are on. However, no arrest was reported till our going to press.