[Dawn] A front man for the Pak Taliban has grabbed credit for killing a Chinese woman in the northwestern city of Beautiful Downtown Peshawar.Taliban front man Mohammad Afridi said on Thursday the woman was targeted to avenge what he said were atrocities carried out by Chinese security forces in the heavily Moslem northwestern region of Xinjiang.
Peshawar police chief Imtiaz Altaf says that faceless myrmidons may have been behind the Tuesday shooting, but that no conclusions had been reached yet.
Gunmen killed the woman in a bazaar in Peshawar along with a local man accompanying her.