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Gunmen kill senior female Pakistan politician
Daily Telegraph ^ | May 18, 2013 | Reuters/AFP

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 ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government
KEYWORDS: feminism; imrankhan; pakistan

1 posted on 05/18/2013 8:55:18 PM PDT by OddLane
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To: OddLane

A “bump in the road”?


2 posted on 05/18/2013 9:03:16 PM PDT by txrangerette ("...hold to the truth; speak without fear..."(Glenn Beck))
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To: txrangerette

Take the purse, leave the Cannoli!


3 posted on 05/18/2013 9:13:04 PM PDT by Wally_Kalbacken
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To: txrangerette

Lutherans?


4 posted on 05/18/2013 9:57:02 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( ==> sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: OddLane
Around 150 people were killed in the run-up to national elections held last week, which handed a landslide victory to ...

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)

5 posted on 05/18/2013 10:04:26 PM PDT by C210N (When people fear government there is tyranny; when government fears people there is liberty)
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To: smokingfrog

Muslim Democracy in action.


6 posted on 05/18/2013 10:05:23 PM PDT by jsanders2001
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To: OddLane

I’m sure the National Organization of Women gives a crap.


7 posted on 05/19/2013 12:31:33 AM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper

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?


8 posted on 05/19/2013 4:46:12 AM PDT by ronnie raygun (Yesterdays conspiracies are todays truths)
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