Gunned down, Zahra Shahid Hussain, Senior Female Reformist Pakistan politician

There are conflicting reports regarding the death, and or assassination of Zahra Shahid Hussain, a senior reformist politician in Pakistan.

It was not immediately clear who killed Zara Shahid Hussain, 59, a senior member of the Tehreek-e-Insaf party PTI.Hussain “was leaving her home for some work when three gunmen attacked her.

She thought they wanted to snatch her purse and handed it over to them but they killed her”, Firdous Shamim, a local PTI leader, said.Police said all three gunmen escaped after the attack late on Saturday.”They shot her with one bullet near her chin and she could not survive,” senior police official Nasir Aftab told AFP.

via Gunmen kill senior female Pakistan politician – Telegraph.

More on Zahra Shahid Hussain’s death here. Will anyone ever know the truth? Hard to say, I imagine.

Earlier, the police had said that she was ambushed by two bikers who were lying in wait around the corner.

“The assailants opened fire on Zahra, 60, as soon as reached the gate of her residence. Apparently they were there to target her only”, a police official told Geo News.

However, minutes later, SSP Nasir Aftab, claimed that according to what investigators had learned from Zahra’s daughter and driver, the eyewitnesses, it was a street crime related murder.

“The PTI leader got killed resisting an armed roadside robbery”, said SSP Aftab.

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