06 December 2010
Abdul Wahab and Pervez Khan
Explosion
Abdul Wahab, of Express News, and Pervez Khan, of WAQT TV, were among 50 people at a government building in Ghalanai, Mohmand Agency, in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas in the country’s north-west who were killed in a suicide bombing.
The purported leader of Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan claimed responsibility, Pakistan’s Daily Times reported. A further 100 people, including journalist Mohab Ali Mohmand, were wounded in the attack in which two suicide bombers disguised as policemen targeted a tribal meeting of a peace committee of Alizai and Safi tribes at the office of Roshan Khan Mehsud, the Daily Times reported. The meeting was called to devise a strategy against terrorism in the tribal region. Wahab, aged in his mid-30s, and Khan, aged about 28, were preparing a report on the plight of displaced people at the time, according to Mohmand Press Club President Shakirullah Jan.
