- Unidentified individuals goal the Khyber Information correspondent within the Mazarina space: DPO.
- Journalist Sajjad’s buddy, the lawyer, was additionally injured within the assault.
- CM Gandapur takes discover and orders fast arrest of the culprits.
Khyber: Distinguished journalist Khalil Gibran was killed by unidentified gunmen close to his residence in Landi Kotal city of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, police stated on Wednesday.
Gibran was linked to a non-public information channel – Khyber Information – Unknown assailants focused him on a bike when he was heading in direction of his residence together with his buddy Sajjad, the lawyer, in accordance with Khyber District Police Officer Salem Abbas.
He defined that the journalist’s automobile suffered a breakdown close to his home when the gunmen surrounded him, took him out of his automobile, and shot him.
Gibran, who was additionally the previous president of Landi Kotal Press Membership, was killed on the spot and Sajjad was injured whereas the perpetrators fled the scene. His physique was taken to Landi Kotal Hospital for autopsy, the police officer stated.
He added that the incident occurred within the Mazarina space close to Landi Kotal police station.
Abbas claimed that Gibran additionally obtained threats from terrorists.
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Ali Amin Gandapur took cognizance of the incident and ordered the involved authorities to instantly arrest the culprits behind the killing of the journalist.
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Governor Faisal Karim Kundi additionally condemned Gibran’s killing.
The Affiliation of Digital Media Editors and Information Administrators (AEMEND) has strongly condemned the heinous homicide of a Khyber Information reporter and demanded that the KP Chief Minister and the Federal Inside Minister deliver Gibran’s killers to justice.
In a press release, the affiliation criticized the failure of the upper authorities to cease such incidents, as journalists are continually subjected to torture, kidnapping, and threats all through the nation.
Final month, one other journalist from a Sindhi newspaper, Nasrullah Gadani, was focused by unidentified assailants driving bikes close to Korai Goth, 12 kilometers from Mirpur Mathelo, leaving him significantly injured on Might 21.
Ghadani was driving his motorbike on the time of the unlucky accident. After the assault, police took him to Mirpur Mathelo Civil Hospital, the place he obtained emergency medical help and was then despatched to Rahim Yar Khan for surgical procedure.
Later, he was transferred to Karachi through air ambulance to obtain higher remedy, the place the Sindh authorities introduced that it might bear all his medical prices.
Nonetheless, shifting him to a greater hospital didn’t bear fruit as he succumbed to his accidents about three days later and breathed his final.
