<p>Unidentified armed men gunned down a prominent Shia doctor and his 13-year-old son in this eastern Pakistani city on Monday, two days after 85 members of the minority sect were killed in a bombing in Quetta.<br /><br /></p>.<p>Syed Ali Haider, a well-known eye specialist, was driving his son Murtaza to school when his car was intercepted by two gunmen on a motorcycle on Zahoor Elahi Road.<br /><br />The gunmen fired indiscriminately at the vehicle and escaped. The father and son were taken to a nearby hospital, where doctors declared Haider dead on arrival. Murtaza succumbed to his injuries a short while later.<br /><br />The shooting occurred near the private residence of Deputy Prime Minister Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi. Several Shia professionals, including doctors and lawyers, have been gunned down in Lahore and Peshawar in recent weeks.<br /><br />On Saturday, 85 people were killed and nearly 200 injured in a bomb attack in a Shia-dominated area of Quetta. No one claimed responsibility for the killing of the doctor and his son.<br /><br />Haider’s brother, retired judge Afzal Haider, said the family had no enemies. The possibility that the shooting was sectarian in nature could not be ruled out, he said. “We are devastated at the killing of our loved ones. The family has no enmity with any one. I don’t know where we are heading. God help this country,” he said.<br /><br />Lahore Police spokesman Niyab Haider told PTI that officials were investigating different aspects of the incident. “We cannot confirm whether there is a sectarian element at this moment. Let the investigation be completed,” he said. <br /><br />Suicide attack<br /><br />Meanwhile, in Islamabad, two suicide attackers disguised as security personnel blew themselves up after storming a government complex in the restive Peshawar city of northwest Pakistan on Monday, killing seven people and injuring eight others.<br /><br />Both attackers blew themselves up after exchanging fire with security forces in Khyber House, the office of the political administrator of Khyber tribal region.The attackers were wearing uniforms of the Levies militia, witnesses told the media. A meeting of leaders of political parties was underway at Khyber House at the time of the attack.<br /><br />Iqbal Khan, a leader of the Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf, told the media that one suicide attacker blew himself up outside the hall where the meeting was being held.</p>
<p>Unidentified armed men gunned down a prominent Shia doctor and his 13-year-old son in this eastern Pakistani city on Monday, two days after 85 members of the minority sect were killed in a bombing in Quetta.<br /><br /></p>.<p>Syed Ali Haider, a well-known eye specialist, was driving his son Murtaza to school when his car was intercepted by two gunmen on a motorcycle on Zahoor Elahi Road.<br /><br />The gunmen fired indiscriminately at the vehicle and escaped. The father and son were taken to a nearby hospital, where doctors declared Haider dead on arrival. Murtaza succumbed to his injuries a short while later.<br /><br />The shooting occurred near the private residence of Deputy Prime Minister Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi. Several Shia professionals, including doctors and lawyers, have been gunned down in Lahore and Peshawar in recent weeks.<br /><br />On Saturday, 85 people were killed and nearly 200 injured in a bomb attack in a Shia-dominated area of Quetta. No one claimed responsibility for the killing of the doctor and his son.<br /><br />Haider’s brother, retired judge Afzal Haider, said the family had no enemies. The possibility that the shooting was sectarian in nature could not be ruled out, he said. “We are devastated at the killing of our loved ones. The family has no enmity with any one. I don’t know where we are heading. God help this country,” he said.<br /><br />Lahore Police spokesman Niyab Haider told PTI that officials were investigating different aspects of the incident. “We cannot confirm whether there is a sectarian element at this moment. Let the investigation be completed,” he said. <br /><br />Suicide attack<br /><br />Meanwhile, in Islamabad, two suicide attackers disguised as security personnel blew themselves up after storming a government complex in the restive Peshawar city of northwest Pakistan on Monday, killing seven people and injuring eight others.<br /><br />Both attackers blew themselves up after exchanging fire with security forces in Khyber House, the office of the political administrator of Khyber tribal region.The attackers were wearing uniforms of the Levies militia, witnesses told the media. A meeting of leaders of political parties was underway at Khyber House at the time of the attack.<br /><br />Iqbal Khan, a leader of the Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf, told the media that one suicide attacker blew himself up outside the hall where the meeting was being held.</p>