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Fida Dashti, brother of Abdul Rehman Dashti, is photographed in a friend's office in Karachi August 2, 2012. REUTERS/Stringer

KARACHI/QUETTA (Reuters) - One night in March, police found a body slumped in the back of a black Toyota parked in an affluent district of Karachi, Pakistan's commercial capital.

The man, a prominent public servant named Abdul Rehman Dashti, had been shot in the face. His watch, ring and money were gone.

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