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Pakistan hunts clues to activist's murder as free-speech fears grow


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By Syed Raza Hassan and Robert Birsel KARACHI/ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistani investigators have found no match for casings of bullets that killed a prominent human rights activist, dashing hopes for quick answers to a murder that has raised fears for the safety of dissenting voices. Gunmen on a motorcycle attacked activist Sabeen Mahmud late last Friday in Pakistan's southern city of Karachi, as she was leaving her cafe, where she held art exhibitions and talks. She had just hosted a discussion on disappearances in Baluchistan, a resource-rich southwestern province where the Pakistani army is fighting a separatist insurgency, and, rights workers say, overseeing a campaign of killing opponents. Investigators recovered bullet casings from the scene but drew a blank.

 

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