Quetta: Balochistan National Party (Mengal) (BNP) leader Jumma Khan Raisani was assassinated along with four aides near Khuzdar district of Balochistan on Friday.
Sources said that Raisani was on his way on a vehicle along with four aides when unknown armed men opened indiscriminate firing in Gazgi area of Khuzdar.
The deceased were shifted to nearby hospital for autopsy .Panic gripped parts of volatile Balochistan province after the incident.
The BNP has announced a five-day mourning against the killing of Jumma Khan and his companions.
BNP leader Sardar Akhtar Mengal while reacting over the assassination of Khan said certain forces didn’t like political struggle.