Reporter Dies in Pakistan
Saturday, 21 January 2012
Mukarram Khan Aatif was shot repeatedly in northwest Pakistan as he prayed at a mosque.
The New York Times reports: The Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility on Wednesday for the killing of a reporter for the Voice of America, a radio service financed by the United States government, and warned that others would be targets in the future.
A masked gunman strode into a mosque during evening prayers in Shabqadar, a small town in the tribal area of northwest Pakistan, on Tuesday evening and opened fire on the reporter, Mukarram Khan Aatif, as he was praying, his colleagues said.
Aatif was struck by at least three bullets in the chest and head, they said. He was taken to a hospital in Peshawar, 15 miles to the south, but doctors there pronounced him dead on arrival. The killer escaped on a motorbike driven by a second masked man.
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