<p>   u00a0</p>  <div id="cke_pastebin">   Well-known Pashto singer Ghazala Javed and her father were shot and killed by unidentified men in Peshawar city of northwest Pakistan, police said today.u00a0</div>  <div id="cke_pastebin">   u00a0</div>  <div id="cke_pastebin">   The men fired indiscriminately at Javed and her father Mohammad Javed while she was leaving a beauty parlour at the busy Mohallah Nau in Dabgari Bazar last night, the singer&#39;s relatives told the police.u00a0</div>  <div id="cke_pastebin">   u00a0</div>  <div id="cke_pastebin">   The singer&#39;s younger sister, Farhat Bibi, escaped unhurt. The attackers, who were riding motorcycles, escaped after the shooting.u00a0</div>  <div id="cke_pastebin">   u00a0</div>  <div id="cke_pastebin">   Police officials told the media that they were ascertaining details of the attack to establish who was behind the crime. They said the singer&#39;s relatives had not asked police to file charges against anyone as yet.u00a0</div>  <div id="cke_pastebin">   u00a0</div>  <div id="cke_pastebin">   In recent years, several singers and musicians in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province have been gunned down by the local Taliban, who have declared music &quot;un-Islamic&quot;.u00a0</div>  <div id="cke_pastebin">   u00a0</div>  <div id="cke_pastebin">   Several musicians have fled the northwest after receiving threats from the militants. Police are also looking at the possibility that Javed&#39;s death was linked to differences with her husband.u00a0</div>  <div id="cke_pastebin">   u00a0</div>  <div id="cke_pastebin">   Javed married Jehangir Khan, a native of Peshawar, some two years ago. Last year, differences emerged between the couple and she left her husband&#39;s home and began living with her father.u00a0</div>  <div id="cke_pastebin">   u00a0</div>  <div id="cke_pastebin">   Javed, who belonged to the erstwhile Taliban stronghold of Swat Valley, had filed a suit for the dissolution of her marriage, media reports said.u00a0</div>  <div id="cke_pastebin">   u00a0</div>  <div id="cke_pastebin">   The singer rose to prominence after performing on state-run PTV and her audio and video albums were popular both in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and among Pashto people living in the Middle East.</div>  

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Pashto singer Ghazala Javed and her father were gunned down by unidentified men in Pakistan's Peshawar city today.

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