QUETTA, Pakistan, Oct 25 (Reuters) - Gunmen riding on a motorcycle shot dead on Sunday the minister of education in Pakistan's Baluchistan provincial government, Shafiq Ahmed Khan, in the city of Quetta, police and hospital officials said.

"He was wounded in the head and succumbed to his wounds on the way to hospital," said a doctor in the main hospital in the city, the capital of Baluchistan province. (For more Reuters coverage of Afghanistan and Pakistan, see:http://www.reuters.com/news/globalcoverage/afghanistanpakistan) (Reporting by Gul Yousafzai; Writing by Kamran Haider; Editing by Robert Birsel)

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