gunmen assassinated Balochistan National Party (BNP) leader Habib Jalib Baloch

QUETTA : Unidentified gunmen assassinated former senator and Balochistan National Party (BNP) leader Habib Jalib Baloch on Wednesday as he left his home on the outskirts of Quetta, Relatives said Jalib, a lawyer and former senator, was going to drop his children at school when gunmen waiting for him outside sprayed bullets and fled on a motorbike. "He expired on his way to hospital. The motorcycle riders managed to flee after the firing," Shah Nawaz, a senior police officer in the hospital, told AFP. The shooting took place in the Sariab neighbourhood on the outskirts of Quetta, the capital of Balochistan.