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Top 10 political assassinations in Pakistan

New Delhi: The political life in Pakistan has been punctuated with assassinations since 1947.An assassination is the deliberate killing of a person for a motive which may be jealousy, political, religious, and ideological.The record of

India TV News Desk India TV News Desk Updated on: October 06, 2014 13:12 IST


8. Khan Abdul Jabbar Khan

 

Also known as the pioneer of Indian Independence movement, he was the brother of Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan, the “Frontier Gandhi” who opposed All-India Muslim League's demand for the partition of India.

He was a Pakistani politician. 

He was assassinated by Atta Mohammad at approximately 8:30 am on May 9, 1958.  

This tragic incident occurred while Dr. Khan Sahib was sitting in the garden of his son Sadullah Khan's house at 16 Aikman Road, GOR, Lahore.

He was waiting for Colonel Syed Abid Hussein of Jhang to accompany him to a meeting organized in connection with the scheduled February 1959 General Elections.



9. Salmaan Taseer

 

Pakistani businessman and politician who served as the 26th governor of the province of Punjab from 2008 until his assassination in early 2011.

On 4 January 2011, Taseer was assassinated in Islamabad by his own security guard Mumtaz Qadri, who disagreed with Taseer's opposition to Pakistan's blasphemy law.


 
10. Mir Noor-ud-din Mengal



He was a senior Baloch politician who was active in Balochistan's political scene for nearly four decades, from 1970 to 2010.

 On 13 October 2010 he had gone to the market in Kalat to get his Blood Pressure checked. As soon as he got back and turned his car into the gate of his house, unknown gunmen riding a motorcycle came up behind him and opened indiscriminate fire upon him.

He was hit by three bullets; One in the neck and two in the back.
 
He was immediately rushed to the local hospital but none of the doctors who were supposed to be on duty were there.

Mengal was sent to Quetta without being given basic first aid.

He died on the way to Quetta due to profuse bleeding.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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