Alwaght - Four Shiites were killed in Pakistan's Baluchistan province, in what police suspect was a sectarian attack.
According to Pakistani police, gunmen riding on a motorcycle opened on Wednesday and killed our members of a Shiite family and their driver in the southwest province.
The family from Hazara community was traveling to the southern port city of Karachi when assailants ambushed their car on a highway close to Quetta, the provincial capital.
"The Shi'ites were targeted because of their faith," added Ghazanfar Ali, police chief in the town of Mastung, about 50 km (31 miles) south of Quetta.
No group immediately claimed responsibility for the attack but outlawed Sunni extremist groups have claimed similar attacks in the past. Sunni extremists view Shiites as apostates deserving of death.
Recent violence in Baluchistan has fueled concern about security for projects in the $57-billion China Pakistan Economic Corridor, a transport and energy link planned to run from western China to Pakistan's southern deep-water port of Gwadar.
