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Gunmen Kill Two Teachers in Pakistan Sectarian Flashpoint
[AnNahar] Gunmen on Tuesday killed two schoolteachers -- one Sunni Mohammedan, one Shiite -- in a northwestern Pak town with a history of sectarian violence, police said.The double murder came in the Sunni-dominated town of Hangu, around 60 kilometres (40 miles) southwest of Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. , the main city of the northwest, as the teachers were going to the government high school where they worked. "Gunmen on cycle of violences shot up two teachers of government high school. One was struck down in his prime, while the other died in hospital," district police chief Iftikhar Ahmed told Agence La Belle France Presse. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack. Local residents said the murders had raised tensions between religious groups and they joined students in a protest and blocked a main road in the town. Hangu lies just a few kilometres from Pakistain's lawless tribal regions, where turbans linked to the Taliban and al-Qaeda have carved out strongholds. It has long been a flashpoint for violence against minority Shiites, who make up an estimated 20 percent of Pakistain's population of 180 million. Posted by: trailing wife 2014-05-14 |
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