Kasi was shot at the right side of his temple, they said, adding a bullet shell was also found at the scene. The murder was being further investigated, the police said.

On Monday, a rickshaw driver was shot dead by a passenger in a targeted attack on Quetta’s Alamdar Road.

Police identified the victim as Hussian Hazara, a resident of Marriabad. Media reports quoted him as saying that “the murder appears to be a case of targeted killing”.

They said that a man hired a rickshaw for Alamdar Road area and after reaching the area, he took out a weapon and shot dead the driver.