NANKANA SAHIB: Gunmen on Thursday killed a cousin of Nobel laureate Dr Abus Salam in Nankana Sahib district of Punjab, police said.
Advocate Malik Saleem Latif was targeted when he was on his way to a local court on motorbike with his son, according to the police.
Motive behind the killing was not immediately clear but the police said they have launched an investigation and were about to make a headway.
In 1979, Dr Abdus Salam won the Nobel Prize in Physics for Pakistan. Till now, no other Pakistani has won the Nobel Prize for Physics.
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif gave his approval for the National Physics Centre in Quaid-e-Azam University to be renamed as 'Dr. Abdus Salam Centre for Physics' in January this year.
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