(CNN) -- The murder of a teacher has prompted a petition calling for Pakistan's government to take a greater role in protecting girls and teachers attending school. Shahnaz Nazli was on her way to an all girls school where she taught in the village of Shahkas, in the country's northwestern Khyber tribal district, when two men on a motorcycle pulled up and opened fire, government official Asmatullah Wazir told CNN. She was transported to hospital in the nearby town of Jamrud, but later died from the multiple gunshots to her body. Nazli's husband and son, however, told CNN that the teacher died at the scene.
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NEW: Husband says government did not provide protection
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Shahnaz Nazli was on her way to an all girls school when gunmen struck
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Case has similarities with last year's attempted murder of teen Malala Yousafzai
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Petition calls for protection for women and girls in Pakistan's schools
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