Human rights activist Sabeen Mahmud shot dead in Karachi

Sabeen Mahmud was a human rights activist owner of a coffee shop and performance space in Karachi, Pakistan, designed to bring people together — for music, dance, art exhibitions and dialog, sometimes over divisive issues. Mahmud, 40, was fatally gunned down as she left T2F (The Second Floor) following an event — a panel discussion titled “Unsilencing Balochistan” — in a shooting that also left her mother critically injured.