=> PESHAWAR: Four more CD shops were destroyed in two
PESHAWAR: Four more CD shops were destroyed in two consecutive bomb blasts in the Surizai village in the outskirts of Peshawar early on Monday morning.
The first explosion occurred at 4:26 am while the second bomb went off at 4:28 am in Surizai Payan, damaging three CD shops owned by Gohar Ali, Gul Rahman and Hashmat Khan. A mini cinema house and two nearby houses were also damaged in the blasts.
“The two bombs went off with such loud bang that I heard it miles away here,” Javed Khan, a resident of Garhi Qamar Din, told ‘The News’. Police investigators collected evidences from the spot later. A case was also registered against unidentified criminals in the Badhber Police Station.
CD shops and mini cinema houses as well as Internet cafes have been coming under terrorist attacks throughout the province for the past several months. Over 30 bombs blasts targeting Internet cafes and CD shops have so far occurred in the provincial capital alone.
The series of attacks on CD shops has forced the people involved in the business to switch over to other professions. The Peshawarities stand harassed after so many terrorist attacks in the past one-year and the new trend of the so-called militancy in Matani and nearby areas in south and Michni, Urmar and other localities in north.
Recently the capital city police have also asked the government to deploy Frontier Constabulary in Michni to counter the spill over of militants to the rest of Peshawar. A few platoons of Frontier Corps had already been deployed in Spina Thana near Matani.
These troops, however, are yet to start patrolling in the area to provide a sense of security to the people of the troubled parts. A number of high-profile kidnappings have taken place in Matani area alone during the past few days that included the abduction of four soldiers including two commissioned officers and picking up of district administrator Commissionerate for the Afghan Refugees along with his two brothers and three others. Nobody knows about their whereabouts so far.
Source: The News
Date:12/25/2007
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