Former Chief Justice Shot Dead In Terrorist Attack In Pakistan’s Balochistan

Islamabad: A former excessive courtroom docket leader justice of Pakistan’s Balochistan province become shot lifeless out of doors a mosque on Friday, police officers stated.

Assailants opened hearthplace at Muhammad Noor Meskanzai out of doors the mosque withinside the Kharan area, which left him gravely injured, Kharan Superintendent of Police Asif Halim informed Dawn.

The former leader justice become taken to a close-by hospital, wherein he died of his injuries, the file stated.

Expressing condolences over the dying of the “fearless judge”, Balochistan leader minister Mir Abdul Qudoos Bizenjo stated his offerings have been “unforgettable”.

Bizenjo stated that the “cowardly assaults of the enemies of peace can’t intimidate the nation”.

Maskanzai authored the landmark judgement that declared the Riba-primarily based totally banking device in opposition to the Sharia.

Quetta Bar Association (QBA) President Ajmal Khan Kakar additionally condemned Muskanzai’s killing. He stated each citizen of Pakistan become deeply saddened via way of means of the dying of the previous judge.

“We strongly condemn this incident and call for that the killers ought to without delay be arrest and taken to book,” Ajmal Kakar become quoted as announcing via way of means of Dawn.

This comes amid the deteriorating safety state of affairs withinside the country.

Earlier this month, Pakistan’s State Minister for Law Shahadat Hussain conceded that terror sports had witnessed a pointy boom.

The maximum wide variety of terror incidents in Pakistan this yr become recorded in September, stated an Islamabad-primarily based totally suppose tank pointed to the resumption of assaults via way of means of the outlawed Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP).

The wide variety of terror assaults multiplied in September in comparison to August this yr, the Dawn stated in an in advance file bringing up the Pakistan Institute for Conflict and Security Studies (PICSS).

September witnessed forty two terrorist assaults with an boom of 35 according to cent in comparison to August. The Pakistani suppose tank additionally determined an boom of 106 according to cent in violence in erstwhile Fata and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP).

In August this yr, the suppose tank stated the militants finished 31 assaults throughout Pakistan, wherein 37 human beings have been killed and fifty five others injured.