[1][2][3] On August 28 two gunmen broke into Mastoi's office, located on the second story of the Kabirwala Building, on Jinnah Road in downtown Quetta.
[6] The other victims were trainee reporter Ghulam Rasool, also known as Abdul Rasul, and accountant Mohammed Younus.
The two arrested men were brought to a press conference presented by Sarfaraz Bugti, who is the provincial home minister in Balochistan.
In December 2009 while covering the signing ceremony of the 7th NFC award in Gwadar he got shocked by a wire to close to his hotel window.
After the death of Irshad Mastio, the Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists asked that all its members to protest in an attempt to condemn his killing.
The chief executive officer of the Newseum, Peter Prichard, said that "It is right, and just, that we pause today in our busy lives to remember what these journalists did, and why they did it."