11 May 2011
Nasrullah Afridi
Explosion
A Pakistani journalist on the hit list of a feared militant leader was killed by a remote-controlled bomb planted in his car, officials said.
Nasrullah Afridi, 38, who had been working for state-run Pakistan Television and several newspapers in the Khyber tribal district, died when his car exploded in the northwestern city of Peshawar, local police chief Liaquat Ali told AFP. "A remote-controlled device was planted in the rear part of his car which had been parked in a commercial area," he said, adding that it detonated soon after Afridi returned and started the vehicle. Provincial information minister Mian Iftikhar Hussain called it a targeted killing.
