Pakistani singer Ghazala Javed shot dead Ghazala Javed, 24, was shot six times by gunmen on a motorbike in the north-western city of Peshawar, according to police officers. Taliban fighters controlled by Maulana Fazlullah, a radical cleric, seized control of the district, terrorising the population with murders and beheadings as well as attacks on girls" schools and music shops Singers and dancers were singled out for particular attention. Last year, Ms Javed, whose records were popular in the north-western Pashto-speaking areas of Pakistan, stunned the conservative country by asking her husband for a divorce after only six months of marriage. Her family said she was unhappy at discovering he had another wife and by his attempts to stop her singing.