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KARACHI – Unidentified gunmen on Thursday killed Balochistan Excise and Taxation Minister Sardar Rustam Jamali at Gulistan-e-Jauhar Block-12 within the precincts of Shahrah-e-Faisal Police Station.According to details, Rustam, elder son of Jamali tribe chieftain Sardar Yar Muhammad Jamali and cousin of former prime minister Mir Zafarullah Jamali, was targeted in front of the Rado Apartments.“Jamali was in his black colour Prado (BD-5610) when unknown gunmen fired three bullets on him in front of Rado Apartments, Gulistan-e-Jauhar Block-12,” DSP Shahrah-e-Faisal Shafi Rind said.The provincial minister was initially rushed to Darul Sehat Hospital in a critical condition and later when he was being shifted to Agha Khan Hospital, he succumbed to injuries, he added.Talking about the cause of killing, he expressed his inability to pass any judgment but said many motives including car snatching, target-killing or personal and tribal enmity could be among the reasons behind the brutal murder.“They (assailants) were four in number, who apparently tried to snatch the provincial minister’s car, who was alone at that time and on his resistance, shot him thrice, which proved fatal and fled,” he claimed.Meanwhile, some eye witnesses have claimed that three to four armed men in a silver colour Cultus (AQH-850) approached Jamali’s car and pumped three bullets, two in his chest and one in face, which resulted in his death.Sources privy to the matter also say that the deceased Jamali had a meeting with the four persons who had arrived on the said car, while two of them disembarked and got inside Jamali’s Prado where they shot him dead.They said the attackers used victim’s pistol, which they took way along with them, while a number of property files and other documents were also recovered from his vehicle.According to deceased’s uncle Nauraiz Khan Jamali, the deceased was returning back to the Rado Apartments, as he had scheduled a meeting with Ramzan Palari, Aziz Tabani, Fazal Malik and Zakir over a dispute of plot in Gulistan-e-Jauhar.