CPJ slams Pakistani journalists’ murder

NEW YORK : The Committee to Protect Journalists, a New York-based watchdog, has condemned the fatal shooting of a Pakistani TV reporter, Mohammed Ibrahim, near the Pak-Afghan border on Thursday.
‘We offer our condolences to Mohammed Ibrahim’s family and colleagues,’ CPJ Asia Programme Coordinator Bob Dietz said in a statement. ‘The new government must take immediate steps to investigate this murder and safeguard the journalists who are providing important reporting from this volatile border region.’
Ibrahim, a reporter for the Express News channel, was gunned down by unknown men outside Khar when he was returning by motorcycle from an interview with local Taliban spokesman Maulvi Omar.