By
Emma Reynolds
Last updated at 5:42 PM on 29th December 2011
A Pakistani police surgeon has been shot dead after receiving death threats over his role in investigating the deaths of five foreigners.
Baqir Shah became suspicious when he conducted autopsies on the group from central Asia, of whom three were women and one was seven months pregnant.
Authorities originally said the five were would-be suicide bombers, who had died when they detonated a grenade at a checkpoint near Quetta, the capital of Baluchistan province.
Shocking: Surgeon Baqir Shah, who performed an autopsy on the bodies of the foreigners, after he was killed by unknown gunmen in Quetta, Pakistan
Brutal: Masked gunmen shot the surgeon, police said, after he said he had resisted pressure to fudge the postmortem reports of four unarmed foreigners shot by police
But Mr Shah had apparently discovered that the unarmed group were killed by a hail of bullets, fired by security forces.
One of the women was said to have been seen on video raising an arm in what looked like a pleading gesture as she was shot.
Mr Shah was severely beaten by men who he
claimed were police soon after he testified before a government
commission set up to investigate the deaths.
Police denied the
allegations.
Fear: Pakistanis gather around the blood-stained car of Mr Shah after the ambush
Suspicions: Pakistani security officials examine the car. Mr Shah claimed he had received death threats for his work on an autopsy of five foreigners
Mr Shah spoke out about the death threats from
unknown people in a televised press conference earlier this year.
He said he had resisted pressure to fudge the postmortem reports of the four
unarmed Russians and a Tajik.
The surgeon continued to receive threats on his life
until he was shot by masked gunmen in Quetta, according to police
officer Nazir Ahmed Khurd.
The government tribunal held several police and paramilitary soldiers thought to be responsible for the deaths of the foreigners.
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I never knew the daily mail promoted conspiracy theories
pakistan has caputred loads of al qaeda fighters and record exports !
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urghhh, stupid country, when will they learn
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Let the middle east step up instead of stepping back, and help the poor poor muslim brotherhood.
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We should stop all immigration and cut all diplomatic ties with this faild state they abuse the word coruption and even worse we are still sending millions in aid to finance their nuclear weapons programe.
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Why are we still giving money to this crackpot country.???????
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Seems like a good reason to stop all aid to Pakistan once our troops are withdrawn from Afghanistan!
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And why do we give them our money?
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I could be wrong, but isn’t this a country we give foreign aid to.
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Disgusting land.They make Noth Korea look like a holiday destination
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The most currupt country in the world with no appitite to deal with it
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