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Chinese woman, local man shot dead in Peshawar: police
[Dawn] A Chinese woman was rubbed out with a male companion on Tuesday in Beautiful Downtown Peshawar, which borders the tribal belt stronghold of Taliban and al Qaeda-linked beturbanned goons, police said.They were killed by gunnies on  cycle of violences while walking in the Kohati bazaar in the historic centre of the northwestern city, but the motive of the shooting was not immediately clear, police official Tahir Ayub told AFP."Those who were killed are one man carrying a Pak ID card and one woman carrying a Chinese passport," Ayub told AFP. They were walking in the Kohati Bazaar when gunnies on motorbikes shot them and decamped, he said. Police found a Chinese passport with a Pak tourist visa inside, a laptop, digital camera and biscuits in the woman's bag, Ayub said. Police said initially that two foreigners had been killed. It was the fifth shooting or kaboom in Pakistain's northwestern province of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... since Thursday, raising fears that violence is again on the rise following a relative decline in unrest in recent months. Peshawar is a city of 2.5 million close to the Afghan border and has long been on the frontline of violence blamed on a five-year Taliban insurgency led by forces of Evil opposed to the government's alliance with the United States. Posted by: Fred 2012-02-29 |
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