Two days after the mob attack at Gurdwara Janam Asthan in Nankana Sahib, Sikh youth Parvendar Singh, 25, was murdered by ‘unknown’ persons in Peshawar on Sunday evening. He was the brother of Pakistan’s first Sikh news anchor Harmeet Singh.

Talking to The Tribune over the phone, Harmeet Singh called it “targeted killing” to suppress the minority community. “His marriage was fixed for next month. He was in Peshawar for shopping when unidentified assailants opened fire at him. The police say they are clueless. Unless there’s pressure, the case will be buried.

Hailing from Chakesa in Shangla district of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, Harmeet Singh, a Sehajdhari Sikh, was pursuing business studies in Malaysia when he was offered a job by Public News. He hit the headlines in June 2018 when he was appointed news anchor by the Islamabad-based Urdu channel and associated with Radio Pakistan as a broadcaster.

One of his colleagues, Rawal Khan, said Harmeet Singh had received a call from an unknown number, saying: “We have killed your brother.”