LARKANA: Unidentified armed motorcyclists shot dead the headmaster of the Government High School Gathar (Qambar) on the outskirts of Qambar town on Tuesday and fled.

Victim Mukhtiar Ahmed Buledi was the former president of the Government Secondary Teachers Association (GSTA) of Qambar-Shahdadkot district and held the post continuously for 12 years.

The killers chased him from his place of posting and targetted him when he was returning home in a car after distributing textbooks in the school.

He was shot dead near the Qambar-Wagan turn.

Published in Dawn, May 18th, 2017

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