On Tuesday April 27, a professor of Balochistan University was gunned down in Quetta. Ms Nazima Talib was killed when two masked men opened fire on the rickshaw she was sitting in. She received two bullets to the head, and died in the Civil Hospital before any medical treatment could take place. Members of the Balochistan Liberation Army took responsibility for the attack, claiming it was in retaliation to killings of two Baloch women and torturing of female political workers; two incidents seemingly unrelated to Nazima Talib or the Balochistan University.