Peshawar:
Unknown gunmen on a motorcycle Saturday shot dead a herbal medicine trader from the minority Sikh community in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar, officials said.
The shooting took place in the congested Nothia Bazaar of Peshawar which has seen frequent bomb blasts and suicide attacks by Taliban militants active in the tribal belt along Afghan border.
"Harjeet Singh, 28, a herbal medicine trader, was shot dead outside his shop," senior police official Faisal Shahzad told AFP.<divid='ndtvrelcontent'></div>
Shahzad said that nobody immediately claimed the responsibility for the shooting, but several militant groups were active and now targeting minorities to creat unrest.
Local police station chief Dost Mohammad confirmed the incident and details.
Minorities in Muslim-majority Pakistan make up some two percent of the country's population of 180 million.
In September last year devastating double suicide attacks at the historic All Saints church in the main city area of Peshawar left 82 people dead.
Pakistan is rife with violence against religious minorities as Al-Qaeda and Taliban-led militants regularly target Christian, Sikhs, Hindus, Ahmadi and Shiite communities in the country.
The shooting took place in the congested Nothia Bazaar of Peshawar which has seen frequent bomb blasts and suicide attacks by Taliban militants active in the tribal belt along Afghan border.
"Harjeet Singh, 28, a herbal medicine trader, was shot dead outside his shop," senior police official Faisal Shahzad told AFP.<divid='ndtvrelcontent'></div>
Shahzad said that nobody immediately claimed the responsibility for the shooting, but several militant groups were active and now targeting minorities to creat unrest.
Local police station chief Dost Mohammad confirmed the incident and details.
Minorities in Muslim-majority Pakistan make up some two percent of the country's population of 180 million.
In September last year devastating double suicide attacks at the historic All Saints church in the main city area of Peshawar left 82 people dead.
Pakistan is rife with violence against religious minorities as Al-Qaeda and Taliban-led militants regularly target Christian, Sikhs, Hindus, Ahmadi and Shiite communities in the country.
