Islamabad / Amritsar: Unknown armed people were shot dead by Unani’s doctor belonging to the Sikh community in the northwestern city of Pakistan on Thursday, triggering panic among small minority communities in the provic capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
Sikh has demanded that the Pakistani government ensure their security and control the elements targeting them.
According to the police, the attackers escaped after firing four shots to Hakeem Satnam Singh in his clinic, Dharmanda Dawakhana, at Charsadda Road in Peshawar.
Singh rushed to the nearest woman’s hospital with a critical condition where he gave up on his injury.
Hakeem, said the local residents, has returned to Peshawar the day before from Hassan Abdaial, where Gurdwara Punja Sahib, one of the famous Sikhism sacred sites, is located.
Police said a case had been registered with an attacker and an unknown investigation.
Sikh Social Activists, Radesh Singh Tony, told Ti on the telephone from Pakistan that Satnam family members came from the Tribal Tira community at the Orakzai Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Agency.
Community members have relatives at Jalalabad Afghanistan and often go there.
Only 520 Sikh families live in Peshawar, the capital of Khyber Province Pakhtunkhwa.
The majority of them have migrated to the city of the Orakzai tribal area, Kurram and Khyber to avoid terrorism.
The gradual movement of these regions of the tribal area began in the mid-1980s which increased rapidly with the emergence of Pakistani Tehreek-i-Taliban (TTP), an umbrella organization of a number of Pakistani terror clothing, in 2007.
Demand for Jizya (money protection from money Minorities) and some socio-religious sidewalks by TTP have forced the Sikh family to leave their ancestral homes for new residence.
Tony said Satnam Singh together with his family had shifted to Peshawar following an attack on Sikh, a little knowing that he would be a victim to hate Monger even here.
“The Sikh community has appealed to the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government to ensure their security,” he said.
Pakistan has been described as a country that is not safe for a minority by rights groups.
There have been more than a dozen Sikh’s murder in recent years.
Among the victims was Dr.
Swaran Singh, KPK Head of Parvez Khan Khattak, who was shot dead on April 22, 2016.
“We are worried that the killings targeted by Sikh community members can increase with the Taliban holding power in neighboring Afghanistan because they have previously targeted Sikh in Afghanistan , “Tony said.