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| TTP claims responsibility for Singh’s murder |
| 2016-04-25 |
| [DAWN] As the last rites of Sardar Soran Singh, a member of the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... cabinet, were performed in Buner district on Saturday, the banned Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP) grabbed credit for the killing. TTP front man Muhammad Khurrasani issued a statement, saying that Mr Singh was a high-level government functionary. Mr Singh, an MPA of the Pakistain Tehrik-e-Insaf ...a political party in Pakistan. PTI was founded by former Pakistani cricket captain and philanthropist Imran Khan. The party's slogan is Justice, Humanity and Self Esteem, each of which is open to widely divergent interpretations.... (PTI) and special assistant to the chief minister for minorities, was bumped off near his home on Friday evening. Buner district police chief Khalid Hamdani told Dawn that some suspects were tossed into the calaboose during search operations and significant progress had been made in the investigation. The final rites were performed at a crematorium in the Pir Baba area where Mr Singh was killed. Chief Minister Pervez Khattak, KP Assembly Speaker Asad Qaisar, ministers and people from all walks of life attended the last rites of Mr Singh in his ancestral village. Mr Khattak visited the residence of Mr Singh where he offered his condolences to the bereaved family and elders of the Sikh community. Talking to news hounds, he said Mr Singh’s killing was a great loss to his government, the PTI and the minority community of the province. He said Mr Singh was a patriotic Pak and Pakhtun. Replying to a question, the chief minister said police had credible clues that could help arrest the killers. There are pockets of Sikh population in Buner, Swat ...a valley and an administrative district in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province of Pakistain, located 99 mi from Islamabad. It is inhabited mostly by Pashto speakers. The place has gone steadily downhill since the days when Babe Ruth was the Sultan of Swat... and 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. districts in KP and Khyber and Orakzai agencies in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas. In Khyber, there were pockets of Sikh population in Bara and Tirah localities, but most of them have relocated to Peshawar and other areas after incidents of kidnapping for ransom. Most of the Sikhs living in KP and Fata are bilingual and consider themselves Pakhtun. |
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