peshawar chandigarh a young pakistani sikh who had recently returned to the country from abroad for his wedding was killed late saturday evening by unknown gunmen in the northwestern city of peshawar police confirmed on sundaythe killing comes days after a mob attack on gurdwara nankana sahib near lahoreparvinder singh 25 had come to peshawar from his native chakesar town in khyber pakhtunkhwas shangla district to shop for his wedding which was to be next monthharmeet singh his brother and a journalist by profession said his younger brother ran a small business in malaysia and had arrived in pakistan last month last night one of the assailants called me from parvinders phone and said that they had killed my brother harmeet said adding that he had immediately informed the police about the incident the problem here with us minorities is that we are very vulnerable police stations do not register our complaints unless they receive orders from their top bosses harmeet saidin chandigarh reacting to the murder punjab chief minister amarinder singh tweeted shocked anguished over killing of sikh youth in pakistan coming on heels of nankanasahibattack imrankhanpti govt must ensure thorough investigation strict punishment for the culprits this is the time to act on what you preachparvinders bulletriddled body was recovered from an area in the jurisdiction of chamkani police station in the suburbs of peshawar on sunday morning his body was then taken to a hospital for a postmortem examination an unknown person killed the youth and informed his family about the death through his mobile phone we are investigating the case but cannot rule out personal enmity as the cause the police saidharmeet however blamed the government for failing to provide security to the handful of minority families left in shangla every year the government receives huge funds from abroad for the safety of the minorities instead of providing security they hand over to us the dead bodies of our loved ones the victims brother saidthe government needs to realise that before the remaining members of the minority communities including sikhs hindus and christians leave pakistan that they are the beauty of the country he said denouncing the government for proclaiming to the world that the minorities were safe in pakistanthe remote district of shangla in pakistans northwest was once home to a significant number of sikh families several local sikhs told toi that around 40 sikh families lived in shangla 10 years ago but now only five families resided there these families are in fact fighting against the odds to stay connected to their native land our community centre had been forcibly turned into a public health facility one of them said while speaking to toi outside khyber medical college where parvinders body was take for an autopsywhen contacted the sikh member of pakistan punjabs provincial assembly mahindar pall singh said he was yet to get details of the incidentin may 2018 a prominent sikh leader of peshawar charanjit singh had been shot dead