Former Chief Justice of Balochistan High Court Muhammad Noor Meskanzai was killed late Friday by unknown assailants, reported 24News HD TV channel.  

According to the sources, he was attacked by some armed persons when he was offering prayer in a mosque in the Kharan district of Balochistan as a result of which he received serious bullet injuries.

He was shifted to a hospital in Quetta for treatment, where he succumbed to death.  Meskanzai, 66, was a native of Kunri in the Kharan district of Balochistan.

The DIG police said that Meskanzai's son-in-law Haji Mumtaz was also critically injured in the ambush. 

SHO Kharan said the body of former CJ was being transferred to Quetta.

The miscreants fled after committing an atrocity.  

It is pertinent that former Chief Justice Muhammad Noor Meskanzai had narrowly escaped in a remote-controlled explosion in the Reko Anjeri area of the Naushki district in 2015. However, in the current incident, he couldn’t survive. 

Muhammad Noor Meskanzai had served as the chief justice of the Shariat Court as well. He became BHC's top judge in 2014.

It is again pertinent that he was in 1956 and obtained his early education from a government school in his native Kunri. 

The school had been started by his father Dr Molvi Muhammad Qasim Aini Baloch as the first-ever private school in the district. 

After completing his matriculation in Kharan, he did his BA from Quetta and law degree from the University Law College in Quetta in 1979-1980.

After graduating, Meskanzai started his legal practice in September 1981. 

In 1998, he briefly served as the assistant advocate general of Balochistan. In the Musharraf era, he was elected as the vice chairman of the Balochistan Bar Council. Subsequently, he was twice elected as the chairman of the Bar’s executive committee.

He was elevated as an additional judge of the Balochistan High Court in September 2009, and confirmed as a judge of the high court on May 11, 2011.

In December 2014, he was promoted to the post of chief justice of Balochistan High Court, replacing Justice Ghulam Mustafa Mengal.

He retired from the Balochistan High Court in 2018.