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| Shia scholar gunned down in Peshawar |
| 2014-01-21 |
| [DAWN] Gunmen killed a Shia Mohammedan scholar in the restive northwestern Pak city 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. on Monday, police and hospital officials said. Allama Alim Al-Musvi was shot while walking to the mosque in the historic Kissa Khwani market of Peshawar, the capital of the Khyber Pakhtukhwa province that borders Afghanistan, police said. "Two gunnies opened fire on the scholar and escaped in the narrow streets when he came out of his house and walked towards the mosque," local police official Fazal Jan told AFP. Al-Musvi was a locally respected scholar and used to deliver sermons at special Shia gatherings, he added. A government hospital front man, Jamil Khan, confirmed the death. There has been a rise in sectarian violence in Pakistain after several deadly festivities between Sunni and Shia Mohammedan groups near the capital Islamabad in November. On November 19 gunnies killed a senior Shia university director along with his driver in Lahore, while another Shia leader and his guard were killed in Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... in early December. Three days later, Shamsur Rehman Muawiya, chief of the Ahl-e-Sunnat Wal Jammat (ASWJ) for Punjab province, was killed in Lahore. On January 3, gunnies killed two senior members of a Sunni Mohammedan group in a rare attack in the Pak capital. Pakistain is rife with sectarian festivities, with Sunni Death Eater groups linked to al Qaeda and the Taliban often attacking gatherings by Shias, who constitute some 20 per cent of the country's predominantly Mohammedan population. |
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