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Pashto singer and her father shot dead in Pakistan

Islamabad. A popular Pakistani singer who fled the Taliban to pursue her music career away from their repressive dictates was shot dead in the northwestern city of Peshawar, police said on Tuesday.
The men fired indiscriminately at Javed and her father Mohammad Javed while she was leaving a beauty parlour at the busy Mohallah Nau in Dabgari Bazar last night, the singer’s relatives told police.
The singer’s younger sister, Farhat Bibi, escaped unhurt. The attackers, who were riding motorcycles, escaped after the shooting.
“Two men on a motorbike sprayed bullets and fled leaving them in a pool of blood,” senior police officer Dilawar Bangash told. “We have registered a case and launched an investigation. The murder seems to be result of some internal dispute,” he added.
Police officials told the media that they were ascertaining details of the attack to nab the criminals. In recent years, several singers and musicians in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province have been gunned down by the local Taliban, who have declared music “un-Islamic”.
Several musicians have fled the northwest after receiving threats from the militants.
Police are also looking at the possibility that Javed’s death was linked to differences with her husband.
Javed married Jehangir Khan, a native of Peshawar, some two years ago.

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