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Sunday, June 4, 2017

QUETTA:

Two members of the Hazara community, including a woman, were gunned down in the Spini area of Quetta on Sunday afternoon.

According to security sources, unidentified armed men opened fire on a motorcycle on Spini road, killing two members of the community on the spot.

“The victims received three bullets of 9MM each,” they said, and added that the attackers managed to escape from the scene after the incident.

The bodies were shifted to Bolan Medical College Hospital where one of the deceased was identified as Shakeel, son of Mohammad Ismail and resident of Marriabad... Continue Reading...

Banned outfits in Pakistan operate openly on Facebook

They exist in plain sight, just one search and one click away from any of Pakistan’s 25 million Facebook users.

An investigation carried out by Dawn across the month of April 2017 has revealed that 41 of Pakistan’s 64 banned outfits are present on Facebook in the form of hundreds of pages, groups and individual user profiles.

Their network, both interconnected and public, is a mix of Sunni and Shia sectarian or terror outfits, global terror organisations operating in Pakistan, and separatists in Balochistan and Sindh.... Continue Reading...