Masked gunmen on Thursday shot dead a police surgeon who had complained of death threats in Quetta, police said. Baqir Shah was going home from hospital when the gunmen ambushed his car and shot him in the head five times, killing him on the spot, senior police official Faridullah Braich told AFP.
"We do not know the motive of the killing," Braich said. But Shah had spoken about death threats from unknown people in a televised press conference earlier this year after he resisted pressure to fudge the post-mortem reports of four unarmed Russians and a Tajik shot dead by police.
On May 17, police and Frontier Corps paramilitary forces opened fire on the group, saying they were suicide bombers who attacked a checkpoint in Kharotabad on the outskirts of Quetta. A subsequent judicial commission found that the Tajik and the Russians, three of whom were women and one of whom was pregnant, were unarmed. It sacked two police officials over the killings.