15 mobile phone shops blown up

Published October 18, 2007

KHAR, Oct 17: At least 15 cellphone shops were blown up and 25 others partially damaged in explosions in a plaza in the Inayat Kallay bazaar on Tuesday night. No loss of life was reported.

Tribal administration official Mawaz Khan Afridi said that 14 phone shops had been destroyed in the Ittehad plaza.

The shop-owners said that they had received several letters, asking them not to sell cellphones pre-loaded with ‘musical’ ring tones.

Although many shopkeepers had started offering ‘jihadi’ ring tones to appease the militants, but their shops were not spared.

One shopkeeper said hat he had taken a bank loan to start the business, and now that his shop had been destroyed he had no means to pay off the loan.

So far no group has owned the responsibility for the blasts.

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