Unidentified gunmen have shot dead an Afghan journalist in north-west Pakistan. Janullah Hashimzada was bureau chief in Peshawar for Afghanistan’s Shamshad television channel. The attackers in a Toyota Corolla car intercepted the bus, then they went inside and shot him dead then left. Hashimzada was an outspoken critic of the militants. Read more here
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Afghan journalist killed in Pakistan
Unidentified gunmen have shot dead an Afghan journalist in north-west Pakistan. Janullah Hashimzada was bureau chief in Peshawar for Afghanistan’s Shamshad television channel. The attackers in a Toyota Corolla car intercepted the bus, then they went inside and shot him dead then left. Hashimzada was an outspoken critic of the militants. Read more here
24 Aug 09
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