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muriel_volestrangler

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Sat May 18, 2013, 04:31 PM May 2013

Pakistan politician Zahra Shahid Hussain killed in Karachi

Source: BBC

Zahra Shahid Hussain was the senior vice-president of Pakistan's Movement for Justice party (PTI), led by former international cricketer Imran Khan.
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The BBC's Shahzeb Jillani in Karachi says Imran Khan has blamed the city's dominant MQM party for her murder, a claim the party has denied.

Pakistan's Dawn newspaper, citing police, said the shooting happened during an attempted robbery.

Our correspondent says that reports of Ms Hussain being shot twice in the head raise suspicions that it was a targeted killing made to look like a robbery.

Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-22584440



Can't be good...
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Pakistan politician Zahra Shahid Hussain killed in Karachi (Original Post) muriel_volestrangler May 2013 OP
No...don't think so, either. KoKo May 2013 #1
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