Sabeen Mehmud, Pakistani women's rights activist, shot dead

Country's prime minister condemns killing of campaigner after forum about disappearances of nationalists in Baluchistan region Police in Pakistan say gunmen have killed a prominent women's rights activist in the hours after she held a forum about the country's restive Baluchistan region. Senior police officer Zafar Iqbal says gunmen attacked Sabeen Mehmud on Friday night as she returned to her Karachi home with her mother, who was wounded in the assault.