October 29, 2007	Monday	Shawwal 16, 1428

KOHAT, Oct 28: A music shop owner ‘voluntarily’ set on fire more than 10,000 CDs in the presence of a large number of people here on Sunday after receiving death threats from the local Taliban.

Syed Raza said he had received several letters in which he had been warned that his shop would be blown up if he did not stop his un-Islamic activities. He said that someone had sent him some money along with a letter, telling him to make his own funeral arrangements.

“I told my family and friends about the letters and they advised me to abandon the business. I decided to burn the CDs because I thought that my life was more important to me than the loss of a few hundred thousand rupees.”

Mr Raza invited a local cleric to torch the CDs in the presence of a large number of people near the old bus stand in the Kohat city.

The president of the music shop owners association has already given an undertaking to the police on behalf of 100 businessmen to voluntarily wind up their businesses in a month.