Another heinous attack on minorities! Prominent Sikh community member shot dead in Peshawar
01 Oct 2021 11:05:56
Peshawar, October 01: Minorities are continued to be targeted in Pakistan. In the latest incident, Sardar Satnam Singh, a prominent member of the Sikh community and a famous Hakeem in Pakistan’s Peshawar has been shot dead outside his clinic.
While briefing the press the local police informed that Singh was at his clinic when attackers barged into his cabin and opened fire at him. They further said that he received four bullets. Following which he was rushed to the Lady Reading Hospital in Peshawar, but could not be saved.
Police have sealed his shop and cordoned off the area. The police are investigating the matter from different angles and the possibility of terrorism is also being probed.
According to some reports, Islamic State-Khorasan has claimed responsibility for the attack in Peshawar, the provincial capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province bordering Afghanistan.
Islamic State-Khorasan, which is based in Afghanistan, has stepped up attacks in several Afghan cities since the Taliban marched into Kabul on August 15. It claimed the deadly suicide attack at Kabul airport on August 26 that killed nearly 170 Afghans and 13 US military personnel.
Singh, a well-known figure in the Sikh community of Peshawar, was running his clinic ‘Dharmandar Pharmacy’ on Charsadda Road.
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This is not the first time, several members of the Sikh community have been targeted by terror groups in recent years. In 2018, Charanjit Singh, a prominent Sikh community member, was killed by unknown men in Peshawar. Similarly, news channel anchor Ravinder Singh was killed in 2020 in the city. In 2016, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf National Assembly member Soren Singh was killed in Peshawar.
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