Pak Taliban behind Sikh leader’s killing
Sunday, 24/04/2016
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Peshawar: The Pakistani Taliban on Saturday claimed the responsibility for the assassination of a prominent Sikh politician who was shot dead by motorcycle-borne gunmen near his home in Pakistan’s restive northwest on Friday. The Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) in a statement said that sharp shooter of Special Task Force of TTP ‘successfully’ targeted Sardar Sooran Singh in his home Buner district.
The TTP also threatened its “Mujahideen would continue to target the people creating hurdles in its mission.” “Such activities would continue till the enforcement of Islamic
system in the country,” the terror outfit said. Singh, the Special Assistant to Chief Minister Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) on Minority Affairs, was assassinated in Pir Baba area of Buner district in the province when he was going
back to his home after a routine walk.
LAST RITES PERFORMED
The last rites of Singh were held in Buner district on Saturday. A large number of people from Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf and other political parties’ activists attended the funeral. Singh’s murder was widely condemned by fellow politicians and rights activists. Cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan, whose Pakistan-Tehreek Insaf (PTI) party rules the restive northwestern province, asked his government to set up an inquiry commission to probe the assassination. “Shocked at murder of PTI’s KP MPA & Minorities Minister Sooran Singh,” tweeted Imran Khan.
