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The extermination of minorities in Pakistan is on the rise. On Friday, unidentified gunmen killed a Sikh shopkeeper in Peshawar of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK) province. The victim identified as Dayal Singh was sitting in his shop in the Dir Colony market of Peshawar when the assailants entered his shop and fired shots indiscriminately before leaving.
Singh was reportedly shot twice in the head, leading to his instant death. The police recovered 30 bore bullet shells from the site of the crime. He is survived by his wife and three children.
They said a terrorist present inside the house opened fire on law enforcement personnel.Muhammad Tariq alias Khalid - the main handler of the suicide bombing at the Koocha Risaldar mosque - Abdul Wajid, and Muzaffar Shah were killed in the return fire, Dawn newspaper reported, quoting an official.In the exchange of fire, the three terrorists were killed while four others, including two handlers, managed to escape, the official said.The police said the terrorist group was also involved in the killing of Sikh hakeem medicine practitioner Sardar Satnam Singh in September last year.
Pakistani security forces have shot dead the “main handler” of the deadly suicide bombing at a Shia mosque in Peshawar and his two accomplices, who were reportedly also behind the killing of a Sikh medicine practitioner in the northwestern city, according to a media report on Thursday.