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'Senior' journalist gunned down in Kalat
ISLAMABAD Unidentified armed assailants gunned down a senior journalist in Kalat town, some 160km from Quetta, on Friday. Kalat Press Club president Mehmood Khan Afridi was attacked by two motorcyclists while he was sitting inside a shop at main bus station in Kalat town. The assailants showered bullets killing him on the spot.The attackers, who were on a motorbike, swiftly fled after firing, police said quoting eyewitnesses. This was the third murder of a Pakistani journalist within a week. Earlier chief reporter of the state-run news agency the APP was killed in Karachi while a senior journalist was shot dead in Waziristan. No one has claimed responsibility for the murder. Posted by: Steve White 2013-03-03 |
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