Senior journalist gunned down in Haripur

Motorcyclists opened fire on Bakshish Elahi when he was heading to work

HARIPUR: A senior journalist affiliated with a private media group was shot dead in Haripur, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Sunday.

Bakhshish Elahi, the bureau chief of an Urdu newspaper, was targeted by unidentified motorcyclists near Lora Chowk when he was heading to work.

Members of the Haripur Press Club staged a sit-in near Panya Chowk to protest against Elahi's killing, blocking the GT road.



The Rawalpindi-Islamabad Union of Journalists (RIUJ) and the National Press Club (NPC) Islamabad have announced a protest outside the NPC on Monday afternoon against the journalist's killing.

In January this year, unidentified attackers had gunned down a journalist in Balochistan’s Kalat district, close to the Afghan and Iranian border.

Muhammad Jan, 37, who worked for an Urdu newspaper, was murdered while he was returning home on a motorcycle in Kalat, some 160 kilometres south of Quetta, the provincial capital.

Pakistan is ranked among the world’s most dangerous countries for journalists.