Police say a provincial minister has been fatally shot during an attempted carjacking in the volatile southern Pakistani city of Karachi. Senior police officer Khaliq Shaikh says Sardar Rustam Jamali, the excise and taxation minister in the western province of Baluchistan was killed Thursday when robbers tried to steal his car in an eastern neighborhood of the city. Shaikh says the killing did not appear to have any political motivation. Karachi is Pakistan's largest city and its financial capital. It has been suffering a series of politically motivated killings, with more than 100 political activists killed during the past several months.
