People gathered around the body of Pakistani district election commissioner Ziaullah Qasmi at a hospital following an attack by gunmen in southwest Pakistan's Quetta on March 12, 2013. A local officer of Pakistan's Election Commission was shot dead on Tuesday afternoon in the country's southwestern metropolitan of Quetta, the first incident of its kind in the current year, local media reported. (Xinhua/Asad) 

Doctors examine the body of Pakistani district election commissioner Ziaullah Qasmi at a hospital following an attack by gunmen in southwest Pakistan's Quetta on March 12, 2013. A local officer of Pakistan's Election Commission was shot dead on Tuesday afternoon in the country's southwestern metropolitan of Quetta, the first incident of its kind in the current year, local media reported. (Xinhua/Asad)