DERA ISMAIL KHAN: Suspected Sunni militants on Monday shot dead a Shia man in this remote Pakistani town, where four people have died in sectarian violence in the past week, police said. Speaking to AFP, local police official Habib Khan confirmed that rickshaw driver Syed Arshad Abbas, 35, was shot dead by two gunmen on a motorcycle in the Ara outskirts of northwestern Dera Ismail Khan city. The attackers fled after the shooting, he added.Another police officer, speaking on condition of anonymity, said that the recent spate of murders appeared “to be linked with sectarian attacks”, adding that police had launched investigations into the killings. In the latest two attacks, unidentified gunmen killed a Shia retired soldier late on Friday in Dera Ismail Khan and a Shia government employee in the same region on Saturday.