DTN News: Afghan Journalist Shot Dead In Pakistan

DTN News: Afghan Journalist Shot Dead In Pakistan *Source: DTN News / Int'l Media (NSI News Source Info) ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - August 24, 2009: Unidentified gunmen today shot dead an Afghan journalist after pulling him out of his car in Pakistan's unruly tribal region, officials said.

The body of Afghan journalist Janullah Hashim Zada lies on a stretcher at a local hospital in Jamrud, a town of Pakistan's Khyber tribal area along Afghan border, Monday, Aug. 24, 2009. Zada, who worked for the Afghan-based Shamshad TV, was shot dead as he traveled on a public mini-bus from Torkham in Khyber to the northwestern frontier city of Peshawar, said Khyber Agency political official Omair Khan.

Janullah Hashimzada, who worked for several Afghan and foreign news organisations, was on his way to the northwestern city of Peshawar when the gunmen killed him in the Khyber tribal region bordering Afghanistan. Officials said the gunmen pulled Hashimzada out of his vehicle on the Pakistan-Afghan highway and shot him. He died instantly.

Supporters of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, or Movement for Justice, burn a U.S. flag during a rally against the American policy of expanding U.S. strikes in Pakistani territory, in Peshawar, Pakistan, Monday, Aug. 24, 2009. The gunmen fled and no one claimed responsibility for the killing. Hashimzada, who belonged to eastern Afghan province of Ningrahar and had settled in Pakistan, was coming to Peshawar from Jalalabad, officials said. He worked for the Afghan news agency Pajhwak, CNN, APTN and Al-Arabiya channel.