QUETTA, March 12: The district election commissioner for Quetta was gunned down here on Tuesday.
The outlawed Baloch Liberation Army has claimed responsibility for the killing.
Police said unidentified people riding a motorcycle opened fire on Mohammad Ziaullah Qasmi in Satellite Town when he was going home from office in an auto-rickshaw.
DIG operation Fayyaz Sumbal said Mr Qasmi received six bullet wounds. The rickshaw driver was injured.
Mr Qasmi, who hailed from Sargogha district, was posted in Qeutta in 2010.
A spokesman for the BLA told BBC that the group would not allow holding of elections in Balochistan.
