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Blast at music shop in Sherpao’s village

PESHAWAR: Suspected militants blew up a music shop in a grenade attack on Interior Minister Aftab Ahmed Khan Sherpao’s village, police said on Tuesday. The shop, which sold local and foreign music, was destroyed in the attack late Monday in Sherpao village, 25 kilometres outside Peshawar, senior police officer Feroz Shah said. The village is named after the clan of Sherpao, who frequently returns to his ancestral home. Shah said two militants on a bicycle lobbed a hand grenade into the Wahab Music Centre and fled. A police squad on motorcycles chased and arrested one man, while the other escaped. A dental clinic and a computer business were also damaged in the blast, he added. Traders in Charsadda earlier said they had been warned to stop selling music and video compact discs because pro-Taliban Islamists considered them to be repugnant to the teachings of Islam. Islamic militancy is spreading in the deeply-conservative North West Frontier Province, which borders Afghanistan. afp

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