On Tuesday 5 March 1996, two Iranian Sunni Muslim clerics were shot dead in the Pakistani port city of Karachi. The unidentified attackers had fired about 30 bullets at the car carrying the two clerics, setting its petrol tank ablaze and wounding a woman passer-by. Mowlavi Abdulmaled Mollahzadeh, 45, who had two wives and more than a dozen children, left Iran about seven years ago and settled in Pakistan's western border province of Baluchestan. Abdul-Nasser Jamshid-Zehi, 23, was a religious man not involved in any political activity. In an interview with Swedish Radio on March 7, 1996, Mr. Mollahzadeh's brother said that the Iranian Government had pressured his brother to go back to Iran and that the assassins were one hundred percent from the Iranian regime. The National Council of Resistance of Iran said in Paris issued on March 6: