Sunnis kill Shiite in Pakistan
Afp, Dera Ismail Khan
Suspected Sunni militants yesterday killed a man from the minority Shiite community in a remote Pakistani town which had been under curfew following series of sectarian killings, police said. Two masked men on a bicycle shot the victim on the outskirts of Dera Ismail Khan town and fled, a police official said. "We are looking for the suspects and it appears to be a sectarian killing," the official said on condition of anonymity. The shooting comes just two days after authorities lifted a curfew imposed last month when nine people were killed in the restive town. Sectarian violence between Pakistan's Sunni and Shiite communities has claimed more than 4,000 lives since the late 1980s. Shiites account for about 20 percent of Pakistan's 160 million Sunni-dominated population.
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