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Gunmen shot dead a women’s rights activist and her daughter in deeply conservative northwestern Pakistan, police said today.
Zubeda Begum (40), was killed on the spot late on Friday while her 17-year old daughter Shumyla died in hospital yesterday following the attack in the town of Dir, 250 km northeast of Peshawar. Begum was working for private women’s rights group The Aurat Foundation.
‘‘We have launched a search for the suspects and raided a few places, but so far no arrests have been made,’’ Dir’s Deputy Superintendent of Police Hafeez-ur-Rehman said. —AFP
