From Reza Sayah, CNN
updated 8:54 AM EDT, Tue June 19, 2012
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
- Ghazala Javed recorded rankings of songs in her local Pashto language
- She was a family title amongst young, revolutionary ethnic Pashtuns
- She had simply left a attractiveness salon and was headed house together with her father
- Gunmen on a bike sprayed their automotive with bullets and each have been killed, police said
(CNN) -- A WELL-LIKED feminine Pakistani singer who defied the Taliban's decree towards making a song and dancing was shot and killed in northwest Pakistan Monday night, police and medical institution officers instructed CNN.
Authorities defined the singer's ex-husband as a suspect within the case, and stated early signals have been that the Taliban weren't involved, in line with police legitimate Imtiaz Altaf.
Ghazala Javed, who recorded rankings of songs in her local Pashto language and have become a family identify amongst young, innovative ethnic Pashtuns in northwest Pakistan, had simply left a attractiveness salon and was riding house together with her father while gunmen on a bike raced against their automobile and sprayed it with bullets, Altaf said.
Javed was hit with six bullets and said useless at a clinic in Peshawar, the capital of Pakistan's Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province, in step with health facility reliable Rahim Afridi. Javed's father additionally was killed, police said.
In up to date years the upward thrust of the Pakistani Taliban within the area and the group's ban towards making a song and dancing made it tricky for Javed and different musical artists to accomplish and file songs in Pakistan. Javed recorded and taped a lot of her up to date songs and tune movies in local Dubai.
Last yr Javed made headlines whilst she requested for a divorce from her husband after she reportedly came upon that he had a minimum of another spouse. It was an extraordinary choice in a deeply conservative and male-dominated society the place many view a woman's call for for a divorce as a dishonor to the husband.
Shortly after Monday night's capturing police launched a press release announcing Javed's sister had accused her ex-husband and of his acquaintances
Investigators stated a seek was underway for the 3 men.
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Journalist Aamir Iqbal contributed to this report.
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