Posted on 04/25/2015 10:25:57 AM PDT by BenLurkin
While investigators declined to speculate on a motive for the killing of Sabeen Mahmud, friends and colleagues immediately described her death as a targeted assassination in Pakistan, a country with a nascent democracy where the military and intelligence services still hold tremendous sway.
The gunmen shot both Mahmud and her mother, Mehnaz Mahmud, as they stopped at a traffic light Friday night in an upscale Karachi neighborhood, senior police officer Zafar Iqbal said. Later, Mahmud’s car was brought to a nearby police station; blood stained the car’s white exterior, the front driver’s side window was smashed and a pair of sandals sat on the floor, surrounded by broken glass.
“Two men riding a motorcycle opened fire on the car,” Iqbal said. Mahmud “died on her way to the hospital. Her mother was also wounded,” he said.
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Thousands of people have disappeared from Baluchistan province in recent years amid a government crackdown on nationalists and insurgent groups there. Activists blame the government and intelligence agencies for the disappearances, something authorities deny.
Qadeer Baluch, an activist who last year led a nearly 3,000-kilometer (1,900-mile) protest march across Pakistan to demand justice for the missing in Baluchistan, attended Mahmud’s event Friday night
... “Everybody knows who killed her and why,” Baluch told Pakistan’s The Nation newspaper, without elaborating.
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Just another day in the land of peace...the religion of peace, that is.
“Klintoon Foundation”Donors?????????????
I’m sure plenty of Pakis won some money in their “dead pools”; female activist in a Muslim country? What could go wrong?
This could have something to do with why NOW is not hopping on planes to go spread feminism to the Islamic world.
Backshooting unarmed women and blowing up little kids just doesn't rise to the level of "chickenscheisse coward" for me.
Betcha these half-men would skit their skanties if they were confronted by an armed 12-year-old Israeli - of either sex...
Pig feces be upon their bastard god and his evil pedophile prophet.
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