Sikh shopkeeper gunned down in Peshawar

SSP Operations Haroon-ul-Rashid Khan shares his condolences with household members of the Sikh shopkeeper Dayal Singh astatine his residence connected March 31, 2023. — Photo by author 

PESHAWAR: A Sikh shopkeeper was changeable and killed by an chartless assailant successful the superior metropolis of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa connected Friday, according to police.

The constabulary confirmed that the unfortunate — Dayal Singh — was changeable portion helium was astatine his wide store and died connected spot.

The instrumentality enforcers collected 30 pistol shells and different grounds from the transgression scene.

They besides confirmed that CCTV footage from the tract is being obtained.

However, the motive down the execution is not yet known and constabulary person not ruled retired the anticipation that the incidental was motivated by a idiosyncratic grudge.

Following the incident, SSP Operations Haroon-ul-Rashid Khan went to the residence of the Sikh businessman to explicit his condolences to the deceased man's relatives.

During the meeting, helium briefed the relatives astir the probe truthful acold and assured them of arresting the killers astatine the earliest.  

Singh has near down a widow and 3 children.

The incidental comes a time aft Hindu doc Birbal Genani — erstwhile Karachi Metropolitan Corporation (KMC) elder manager of wellness and oculus specializer — was changeable dormant by chartless assailants successful the larboard city.

Dr Genani, according to police, on with his adjunct woman doc was heading to Gulshan-e-Iqbal from Ramswamy erstwhile unidentified equipped men targeted their car adjacent Garden interchange connected the Lyari Expressway.

The ex-KMC manager of wellness died connected the spot portion his adjunct sustained slug injuries.

Talking to journalists, SSP City Arif Aziz termed Dr Genani’s execution arsenic a “target killing”, adding that the nonstop crushed down the execution is not known yet.

The woman doc — who works with him — was aboard the conveyance erstwhile the unidentified assailants attacked the vehicle.

The murders person sparked outrage connected societal media arsenic radical person voiced concerns implicit the substance of the information of those belonging to minority communities.