arek Fatah
The Toronto Sun
Sabeen Mahmud joked on her Twitter profile she was willing to “die for Hugh Laurie”.
Instead, she was assassinated last Friday night, a martyr for Balochistan’s war of independence from Pakistan.
Mahmud, 40, was not your typical human rights activist.
She flaunted her love of Pink Floyd and Bruce Springsteen on social media, even as she hosted lectures in her Karachi cafe-cum-library on the “forced disappearances” of Balochistan’s rag-tag nationalist rebels.
After being warned not to play host to Balochistan activists and refusing to back down, she was shot dead by “unknown gunmen”, according to reports.
But to informed observers, the prime suspects were obvious.
Declan Walsh, the London-based Pakistan bureau chief for the New York Times, who was expelled in May 2013, tweeted:
“Pakistani military, facing accusations of involvement in killing of @Sabeen, says it will assist investigators.”
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