As hu­man rights ac­tivist Cha­ran­jeet Singh is killed in Pe­shawar, Sikhs in the re­gion de­ter­mined to fight for their re­li­gious and so­cial rights. 

52-year-old hu­man rights ac­tivist and re­li­gious leader Cha­ran­jeet Singh, Vice Pres­i­dent of Pe­shawari Singh Sewa So­ci­ety was shot dead in his shop by un­known as­sailants on the out­skirts of Pe­shawar. 

He was a trader by pro­fes­sion and was vo­cal about the re­li­gious rights of the Sikhs in Pe­shawar. 

Sikhs in Pe­shawar have been at the re­ceiv­ing end for a long time. Many Sikhs -young and old have been killed.  In 2014 too, a Sikh youth was killed and two in­jured in a sim­i­lar man­ner while they were at­tended to their shop.  

Sikhs in Pe­shawar com­plain that they have not re­ceived much sup­port from ei­ther Sikh quar­ters or from the fed­eral or lo­cal gov­ern­ment in Pak­istan. The re­cent killing has jolted them but as per re­ports they are de­ter­mined to stand up for their rights. In 2014, a se­nior leader among them is re­ported to have said, “If we are not wel­come here, let the au­thor­i­ties send us to Canada or the United States or any­where else.”

Yet an­other act of ter­ror. Sar­dar Cha­ran Jeet Singh, ac­tivist and a leader of the Sikh com­mu­nity in #Pe­shawar, shot dead in his shop near Ko­hat Road. #Pak­istan #mi­nor­i­tyrights  https://​t.co/​8eg­SOB­TuZ0 pic.twit­ter.com/​YC1LOpJUG1

— Naila In­ayat (@nailainayat) May 29, 2018

As per lat­est re­ports, Sikhs from Nankana Sahib and other parts of Pak­istan are con­verg­ing on Pe­shawar to take stock of the sit­u­a­tion. 

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It is un­der­stood that un­like Sikhs in Nankana Sahib, Sikhs liv­ing in Pe­shawar strug­gle to get their re­li­gious and so­cial rights ho­n­oured, fac­ing dis­crim­i­na­tion from au­thor­i­ties as well as at­tacks from those in­im­i­cal to mi­nori­ties.