KABUL (Pajhwok): Unidentified gunmen have shot dead a local journalist in the Karak district of Pakistan’ northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.
The incident occurred in the Batani Khel area, of the Karak Police Station. The victim was identified as Waseem Alam, joint editor of a local newspaper.
Alam was returning home on his motorcycle on Saturday evening when he was targeted near the Batani Khel Government School, Aalam’s mother said.
Wounded in the attack, the journalist was evacuated to hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
At least 70 have been killed in the country in the last two decades, according . . .
