Popular Pakistani singer gunned down in drive-by shooting for being "un-Islamic"

Popular Pakistani singer Ghazala Javed and her father were reportedly shot to death as they left a beauty parlor in northwest Pakistan.



The Times of India reports that unidentified men fired indiscriminately at Javed and her father, Mohammad Javed, as they left the beauty parlor on Monday in Dagbari Bazar, the singer’s relatives told police.
The gunmen, who were riding motorcycles, escaped following the shooting. Police officials said they were trying to establish who was behind the crime, including Javed’s estranged husband or possible links to the Taliban, The News International reports.
Several singers and musicians in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province have been gunned down in recent years by the local Taliban, who have declared music "un-Islamic,” the newspaper reports. Several musicians have fled northwest Pakistan after receiving threats from the militants.
The 24-year-old singer, who was popular across Pakistan and Afghanistan, reportedly married businessman Jehangir Khan, a Peshawar native, in 2010. Javed then began living with her father last year when the couple had marital problems, the newspaper reports.
Javed, who sang in her native Pashto and recorded in nearby Dubai, was from Pakistan's Swat valley, which she fled three years ago during a military offensive against Taliban militants in the region amid the group’s ban on singing and dancing.

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Sorry, did not see it.

 

Well, some people have recently argued here (e.g., FranchiseBlade) that there is no moral right to intervene when "this is what people in a country want" (I'm paraphrasing).

I guess an interesting question is - just because these people gain power in a country like Afghanistan or even Pakistan if you don't intervene - do you let it happen? What if they use their position of power then to build terror bases? Etc.

I read a lot about Karzai wanting to negotiate with Taliban, and Western leaders agreeing - seriously?

My question would be - how do you deal with these people?

And the other thought is that these are extreme examples of intolerance and violence, but there is some of the same thinking behind it in smaller examples of intolerance, based on the same religious fervor (e.g. how Mathloom reacted to the cartoonist, etc. etc.).

 

Yes, education is the only way, but very difficult when 50 % of the population (the women) get excluded from an education and when schools are bombed, etc. It seems like a real uphill battle.