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SharePESHAWAR: Suspected Islamic militants blew up a music shop in a grenade attack on the interior minister's village in northwestern Pakistan on Tuesday.
The shop, which sold local and foreign music, was destroyed in the attack on Monday night in Sherpao village, senior police officer Feroz Shah said.
The village is named after the clan of Interior Minister Aftab Sherpao, who frequently returns to his ancestral home.
Shah said two militants on a bicycle lobbed a hand grenade into the Wahab Music Centre and fled. A police squad on motorcycles chased and arrested one man, while the other escaped.
A dental clinic and a computer business were also damaged in the blast, he added.
Sherpao survived a major suicide attack in a nearby village in April in which 29 people were killed. He suffered injuries to his ear, leg and hands in the bombing.
Traders in the local town of Charsada earlier said they had been warned to stop selling music and video compact discs because pro-Taliban Islamists considered them to be repugnant to the teachings of Islam.
Islamic militancy is spreading in the deeply-conservative North West Frontier Province, which borders Afghanistan.
