Islamabad: Unidentified gunmen killed a Sikh shopkeeper in Pakistan's Peshawar in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK) province in presumably one of presumably targeted attacks against minority communities in the country.
This was the second incident of armed attack on a Sikh man in the Yakka Toot area in the last 48 hours. Manmohan Singh, 32, was travelling to interior city area of Peshawar from Rasheed Garhi, a suburban locality of the city, when came under attack from armed men, who fired at him near Guldara Chowk Kakshal.
Soon after the incident, Singh was rushed to a hospital where he was declared dead on arrival by the doctors, police said. Earlier, another Sikh man was injured after he sustained bullet wounds on his legs on Friday. Peshawar is home to about 15,000 Sikhs, who mostly reside in the Jogan Shah neighbourhood of the provincial capital Peshawar.
Sikhs based Peshawar are primarily involved in business. A renowned Sikh 'hakeem' (Unani medicine practitioner) was shot dead by unidentified gunmen inside his clinic in Peshawar last year.
United Sikhs, a forum of the community, which is aggrieved at the killing, said its members will meet the Pakistan consulate with other groups to seek the state department's intervention to protect the rights of minorities in Pakistan.
