Posted on 05/18/2013 8:55:17 PM PDT by OddLane
It was not immediately clear who killed Zara Shahid Hussain, 59, a senior member of the Tehreek-e-Insaf party (PTI).
Hussain "was leaving her home for some work when three gunmen attacked her. She thought they wanted to snatch her purse and handed it over to them but they killed her", Firdous Shamim, a local PTI leader, said. Police said all three gunmen escaped after the attack late on Saturday. "They shot her with one bullet near her chin and she could not survive," senior police official Nasir Aftab told AFP.
Around 150 people were killed in the run-up to national elections held last week, which handed a landslide victory to opposition leader Nawaz Sharif and his PML-N party.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
A “bump in the road”?
Take the purse, leave the Cannoli!
Lutherans?
Well, I guess it is indeed worse in Pakistan. Here, in the run-up to national and local elections a half-year ago, the tide shifted for many offices by scandals that killed only upwards of a half-dozen (so far that we know of)
Muslim Democracy in action.
I’m sure the National Organization of Women gives a crap.
Ah, slavery dont ya just love it. When a women decides, of coarse as a demand from her muslim husband to convert or else. She immediately and happily complies to a life of slavery.....................no compassion on this end, how about you?
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