publish time

26/04/2016

author name Arab Times

publish time

26/04/2016

author name Arab Times
A police offi cer escorts suspects who allegedly killed Sikh lawmaker Sardar Soran Singh after a press conference in Peshawar, Pakistan on April 25. (AP A police offi cer escorts suspects who allegedly killed Sikh lawmaker Sardar Soran Singh after a press conference in Peshawar, Pakistan on April 25. (AP

PESHAWAR, Pakistan, April 25, (RTRS): Police in northwestern Pakistan on Monday arrested six people accused of gunning down a Sikh political figure, attributing the killing to rivalry rather than a Taleban attack, as the militants had claimed.

Gunmen shot and killed Soran Singh, a prominent leader of Pakistan’s tiny Sikh religious minority and a lawmaker from cricket legend Imran Khan’s opposition Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party, outside his home in the town of Buner on Friday. “We arrested six people, including a member of the Sikh community, Buldev Singh,” Azad Khan, a senior police official, told reporters in Peshawar, capital of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.